Adaptation is the mechanism of cognitive growth involving assimilation and accommodation.

• The mechanism of growth is called Adaptation. It is composed of two elements. Assimilation and Accommodation. This can all be conceptualized using the model of a ladder.

• Assimilation is analogous to each wrung. It’s the way we perceive the world, given the level of development of our neurological infra-structure at the time. At birth we are on the bottom wrung and everyone’s structure is pretty much the same. It is a networkof basic reflexes.

  NOTES: A little more information on adaptation.

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