Five-year-old Ava and her family welcomed a new baby this week. Ava's little sister was adopted a few days ago, and now Ava is a little confused. Her little sister didn't come from Mommy's tummy. Her parents flew away and came home with her. But Ava remembers that her little brother came from Mommy's tummy two years ago
Using Piaget's conclusions about humans' basic tendency toward adaptation, discuss how Ava must adapt her existing schemes to assimilate and accommodate these changes in family structure.
What will be an ideal response?
Suggested Response: Ava had one scheme for getting a sibling, and that scheme was the birth of her brother. She saw her mother go through a pregnancy and get bigger every month until her little brother was born. Ava was able to assimilate the new information about a baby growing inside a mommy and then being born. That's the way she came into this family. Now she needs to accommodate, because flying away and bringing a baby home is a different way to become part of the family. Ava needs to create a new scheme for getting a baby, and that scheme is adoption. The idea of adoption did not fit Ava's existing scheme and could not be assimilated. This new idea required new mental structures.
Text Reference:Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
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