Question

Give an example of a time when you had to assimilate new knowledge. How did your thinking change because of this assimilation? In the same way, give an example of a time when you had to accommodate to new information, and describe how your thinking changed.

Answer 1

Assimilation : I loved eating at a particular food joint. I always used to order their burger, i loved their burger, it was always good. But, one day when i ordered the burger, the meat was stale. So, i just thought that they had made a mistake, or something might have gone off that particular day. I still thought that the food joint was good.I just assimilated new knowledge,but i did not my view about the burger joint.

Accommodation: When i was a child, i saw a turtle for the first time swimming in water. i had never seen a turtle, but i had seen a tortoise before. so, i thought that it was a tortoise, because t looked like a tortoise. But, then my friend pointed out that it was a turtle and different from a tortoise, as it spends more time in water than a tortoise also has slightly different physical structure. So after that whenever i saw a turtle i knew that it was a different animal for me now, i had accommodated a new concept.