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Assimilation is when a child integrates what schemas they already know with new ones. For example, if a child is born with sucking reflexes and a nipple is put to their mouth, they will suck. In opposition, accommodation is adapting existing schemas to meet new ones; creating new understanding of experiences. For example, learning the word car to identify family vehicle, the child may then call all moving vehicles’ on the road cars (Kuhn & Siegler, 2006). Organisation is Piaget’s concept of grouping isolated behaviours into higher order systems. Every level of thought is organised. Continued refinement of this organisation is an inherent part of development. Equilibrium/equilibration is when a child balances between the above too, by applying previous experience and information and changing their actions/behaviour to shift from one stage to the next. Disequilibrium occurs when the child uses the wrong schema, for example grabs the breast instead of sucking. (Hill, 2001).
Furthermore, Piaget developed his theory through identifying four cognitive development stages which children go...