{"id":7200,"date":"2019-05-22T15:54:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/accommodation\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:54:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:17","slug":"accommodation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/accommodation\/","title":{"rendered":"Accommodation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The process of modifying or adjusting an existing scheme or psychological structure in order to act upon or know an object, event, or person. &nbsp;For example, a child accommodates his grasping scheme when he adjusts his hand movements to fit the contours of a particular object. &nbsp;In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/aus\/catalogue\/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521651172\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/aus\/catalogue\/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521651172?target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Piaget<\/a>&#8216;s theory, accommodation must occur in tandem with assimilation in the process of equilibration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"assimilation\">Assimilation<\/a>, <a href=\"cognitive_development\">Cognitive development<\/a>, <a href=\"equilibration\">Equilibration<\/a>, <a href=\"scheme\">Scheme<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The process of modifying or adjusting an existing scheme or psychological structure in order to act upon or know an object, event, or person. &nbsp;For example, a child accommodates his grasping scheme when he adjusts his hand movements to fit the contours of a particular object. &nbsp;In Piaget&#8216;s theory, accommodation must occur in tandem with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/accommodation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Accommodation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}