assimilation

Examples of assimilation in the following topics:

• Integrative Psychotherapy

  • While assimilative integration begins with a single theory and brings together techniques from different approaches, theoretical integration tries to bring together those theoretical approaches themselves and then develop a unified theory.
  • Assimilative integration: This mode of integration favors a firm grounding in any one system of psychotherapy, but with a willingness to incorporate or assimilate, perspectives or practices from other schools.

• Human Language Development

  • Jean Piaget's theory of language development suggests that children use both assimilation and accommodation to learn language.
  • Assimilation is the process of changing one's environment to place information into an already-existing schema (or idea).

• Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development

  • In his research, he carefully observed children and presented them with problems to solve that were related to object permanence, reversibility, deductive reasoning, transitivity, and assimilation (described below).
  • By the end of this stage, children will develop true mental operations and master the concepts of reversibility, transitivity, and assimilation.
  • Finally, assimilation is the absorption of new ideas, information, or experiences into a person's existing cognitive structure, or what they already know or understand of the world.

• Defining Thoughts

  • This environment becomes understood through the assimilation of objects which an individual already knows and understands (i.e., the incorporation of new concepts into existing schemes).

• Conscious vs. Unconscious Emotion

  • Rather than an instinctual action, cognitive processing takes place resulting in decision-making, adaptation, and assimilation of information.

• Neural Correlates of Memory Consolidation

  • Instead, sensory details from the event are slowly assimilated into long-term storage over time through the process of consolidation.

• Development of Gender Identity

  • According to gender-schema theory, gender-associated information is predominantly transmitted through society by way of schemata, or networks that allow for some types of information to be more easily assimilated than others.