ADAPTATION

• Adaptation is a process of change in

schema as to meet the requirement of a
certain situation.

• It is the ability of the person to adjust to the

environment and to interact with it.

• Since different child grow in different

• Adaptation involves two sub‐processes:
assimilation and accommodation.

• Assimilation is specifically assimilating a new

object into old schema.

• Accommodation happens when the existing

schema
(knowledge) does not work, needs to be
changed to deal with new object and situations.
 EQUILIBRATION
• Equilibrium occurs when a child's schemas can deal
with most new information through assimilation.

• An unpleasant state of disequilibrium occurs when

new information cannot be fitted into existing
schemas (assimilation).

• Equilibration is a balance between assimilation and

accommodation.
• Equilibration helps to explain how children
are able to move from one stage to
another.

• Equilibration is the force which drives the

learning process as we do not like to be
frustrated.

• Restore balance by mastering the new

challenge (accommodation).