I don't think I realized that your kids were so young! Somehow I had the impression that you had school-aged kids.
Piaget wrote a lot about this process. He said that toddlers and preschoolers start out by trying to slot new things into their existing mental concepts, which he called "assimilation." Then, gradually, they start redefining their mental categories to better fit the new information they've encountered, which Piaget called "accommodation." So they move forward by constant refinement and reshuffling. Isn't it fun to watch it work?
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Date: 2006-02-15 03:55 pm (UTC)Piaget wrote a lot about this process. He said that toddlers and preschoolers start out by trying to slot new things into their existing mental concepts, which he called "assimilation." Then, gradually, they start redefining their mental categories to better fit the new information they've encountered, which Piaget called "accommodation." So they move forward by constant refinement and reshuffling. Isn't it fun to watch it work?