The taking in of new information is termed as

AAssimilation ✓ Correct

BAccommodation

CCognition

DReception

Correct answer: (A) Assimilation

Explanation

The taking in of new information and fitting it into existing schemas is called assimilation.

In Piaget's theory the learner interprets fresh experience through structures already held.

Accommodation is the opposite adjustment, where existing schemas are changed to fit information that will not fit.

Cognition is the whole of mental processing and is far wider than this one intake step.

Reception merely names receiving a stimulus and lacks Piaget's technical sense of incorporation.

Piaget saw assimilation and accommodation working together through equilibration to drive cognitive development.

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