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Reciprocal assimilation

Posted byBrian Hopkins May 22, 2019

Integration of one scheme into another.  For Piaget, ‘touch teaches vision’ in the development of reaching so a visual scheme is assimilated to a scheme for touching.  Results in a more complex scheme, which enables more proficient performance of an action. 

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Posted byBrian HopkinsMay 22, 2019Posted inUncategorizedTags: glossary

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