Twelve-year-old Jill traveled with her parents to a third-world country to volunteer at a mission. When she returned to her home in the United States, she had altered many of her ideas about what she valued. What Piagetian process was at work?

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Shiloh Joseph

Social Studies

14 March, 16:33

Twelve-year-old Jill traveled with her parents to a third-world country to volunteer at a mission. When she returned to her home in the United States, she had altered many of her ideas about what she valued. What Piagetian process was at work?

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Kate Lester · Answer 1

accommodation

Explanation:

Twelve-year-old Jill traveled with her parents to a third-world country to volunteer at a mission. When she returned to her home in the United States, she had altered many of her ideas about what she valued. The piagetan process that was at work is accomodation.

Accommodation is a term developed by psychologist Jean Piaget to describe what occurs when new information or experiences cause you to modify your existing schemas. Rather than make the new information fit into an existing schema, you change the schema in order to accommodate the new information.

Accomodation is when we restructure or modify what we already know so that new information can fit in better.

Gael Schultz · Answer 2

accommodation

Explanation:

According to Jean Piaget, the term accommodation is used to describe what happens to an individual or person when he or she is exposed to new experiences or information, thereby causing a modification to the existing schemas, instead of just making the new experience fit into your existing schema. For Jill to alter many of her ideas about what she values, the accommodation process was at work.