Assimilation?

Question

Assimilation?

Answer 1

Since your question is posted in the preschool section I am going to assume you are relating your question to preschoolers. In this case assimilation, is when a child takes new information and puts it together with information that he or she already knows. For example, a particular toddler usually shakes all his toys when he plays with them. Today he picks up a magnet and shakes it as he has done with the other toys in order to figure it out. I hope this helps. Good luck!

Answer 2

How people of another country adjust to a new country.  For instance, a family comes to the US from Mexico.  If they still speak their native language all the time, still purchase foods from their native country at the grocery store, watch only Spanish television, etc. they are not very assimilated.  However, if they learn to speak English, watch regular tv, purchase things their kids see on tv, adapt to American ways, etc. they are highly assimilated.

Answer 3

Definitions of assimilation on the Web:

- the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family

- the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another

- the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion

- a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound

- acculturation: the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure

- in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance