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As per Piaget, cognitive growth is a process of adaptation to our surrounding world.

Piaget believed that there are two basic ways that we can adapt to new experiences and information: assimilation and accommodation.

Assimilation:

Assimilation is the cognitive process of adding new data to fit in with our existing schema of the world. When the new data doesn't change the old schema but adds to our knowledge, the process is called assimilation.

Accommodation:

is the process in which old schemas are changed or even replaced based on new information.

Major difference among these two is the significant change or replacement of schema in accommodation process, while in assimilation new information easily fits into the old schema.

Equilibration:

It is the force that drives our learning process. When a child encounters new information and is unable to comprehend it, the brain goes into the disequilibrium stage, which a human being doesn't like to be in. And with the help of accommodation and assimilation, it tries to go into the equilibration stage.

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