Answer:
In terms of "Schemas" early in life Assimilation is related to adjusting ones understanding of the world in order to it in new information whereas Accommodation is related more so to fitting new experiences into ones current understanding of the world.
Explanation:
In psychology, a schema describes both the mental and physical actions involved in understanding and knowing. Schemas are categories of knowledge that help us to interpret and understand the world.
A schema includes both a category of knowledge and the process of obtaining that knowledge. As experiences happen, this new information is used to modify, add to, or change previously existing schemas.
For example, a child may have a schema about a type of animal, such as a dog. If the child’s sole experience has been with small dogs, a child might believe that all dogs are small, furry, and have four legs. Suppose then that the child encounters a very large dog. The child will take in this new information, modifying the previously existing schema to include this new information
In the example above, seeing a dog and labeling it “dog” is an example of assimilating the animal into the child’s dog schema.
Whilst the child experience of seeing a very large dog for the first time after having mostly encountered small dogs and taking in the new information that dogs can be large too is accomodation.
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