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Jean Piaget proposed an alternative theory of Schema based on the two concepts: Assimilation and Accommodation. Piaget defined assimilation as the process that humans employ to internalize novel and unfamiliar information by using previously learned information to make sense of it. In order to assimilate, Piaget defined a second cognitive process that served to integrate new information into memory by altering pre-existing schematic networks to fit novel concepts, what he referred to as Accommodation <ref>[http://internal.psychology.illinois.edu/~broberts/Block,%201982.pdf "Jack Block",
Assimilation, Accommodation, and the Dynamics of Personality Development, 1982]</ref>. For Piaget, these two processes, accommodation and assimilation, are mutually reliant on one another and are vital requirements for people to form basic conceptual networks around world knowledge and to add onto these structures by utilizing preexisting learning to understand new information, respectively.
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