Okay, so for this example we're going to read through these two scenarios and we're going to label them as either assimilation or accommodation. So, for our first scenario, we have David, a 20-month-old, who has learned that not all 4-legged animals are dogs, and he can now correctly label dogs and cows. So, it sounds like David has basically accommodated or updated his schema. We'll label that as accommodation. So, he now understands that dogs and cows are separate categories with some overlapping traits.
They might both have fur, walk on four legs, and have tails, but cows have some unique features that dogs don't, such as hooves and sometimes horns. Right? So, it sounds like he has accommodated or kind of updated his understanding of those two categories. Next up, we have Sasha, an 18-month-old who sees a hawk flying in the sky and says "bluebird."
So, it sounds like her schema for a bird is probably a bluebird, and so when she sees this hawk she just immediately labels it as a bluebird. It sounds like this would be assimilation. Right? Assimilation can be extremely efficient and extremely useful. She was able to accurately label this hawk in a bird category, which is great, but it sounds like she has to do some updating and accommodation of that schema to figure out that bluebirds and hawks are separate categories of the same species.
Alright. So, there we have our example, and I will see you guys in the next one. Bye-bye.