{"id":7309,"date":"2019-05-22T15:55:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/assimilation\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:55:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:55:29","slug":"assimilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/assimilation\/","title":{"rendered":"Assimilation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The process of incorporating new experiences (e.g., a new toy) into an existing scheme or psychological structure. &nbsp;In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/aus\/catalogue\/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521651172\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/aus\/catalogue\/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521651172?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Piaget<\/a>&#8216;s theory of genetic epistemology, assimilation must occur in tandem with accommodation, which together form the complementary processes of adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"accommodation\">Accommodation<\/a>, <a href=\"adaptation\">Adaptation<\/a>, <a href=\"cognitive_development\">Cognitive development<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_epistemology\">Developmental epistemology<\/a>, <a href=\"equilibration\">Equilibration<\/a>, <a href=\"reciprocal_assimilation\">Reciprocal assimilation<\/a>, <a href=\"scheme\">Scheme<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The process of incorporating new experiences (e.g., a new toy) into an existing scheme or psychological structure. &nbsp;In Piaget&#8216;s theory of genetic epistemology, assimilation must occur in tandem with accommodation, which together form the complementary processes of adaptation. See Accommodation, Adaptation, Cognitive development, Developmental epistemology, Equilibration, Reciprocal assimilation, Scheme<\/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-7309","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\/7309","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=7309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}