Some important Terminologies that are related to the different Learning Theories: Assimilation: (Piaget) incorporation of incoming information; the process of a student taking some experience or piece of information and finding a home for it in the student's existing knowledge structure Accommodation: (Piaget) changing existing existing mental mental structures and concepts to incorporate incoming information experience; students reconstructing information knowledge so that it can be assimilated Students seek mental stability-"equilibrium" A balance between assimilation and accommodation that will eventually help student move onto higher level thinking and further analysis Adaptation: (Sternberg) Students practicing effective behaviors within a particular social system Sternberg mentions adaptation when he talks about his Theory of Successful Intelligence Highlights the importance of the correlation between individuals and their environment Students ...
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