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KembaraXtra-Psychology - assimilation
Assimilation has several meanings: (1) the general process of absorbing information or substances, or making things more similar; (2) in Piaget’s theory, a form of adaptation where new experiences are fitted into existing mental structures, such as an infant treating a new toy like familiar graspable objects by shaking or mouthing it; (3) in phonetics, a sound change where one speech sound becomes more like a neighbouring sound, such as English plural /s/ being voiced to [z] after voiced consonants (dogs) but remaining [s] after voiceless consonants (cats), a pattern explored via tools like the wug test; (4) in persuasion and social judgment, reducing the gap between one’s attitude and a message/source; (5) in memory, distortion that makes a memory more like existing memories, also found in serial reproduction and rumour transmission and related to levelling and sharpening; and (6) in perception, a tendency for perceived properties of objects/images to shift toward characteristics of adjacent stimuli (as in colour assimilation). The verb is assimilate, and assimilative describes what involves assimilation; the word comes from Latin roots meaning “to make similar.”
Assimilation has several meanings: (1) the general process of absorbing information or substances, or making things more similar; (2) in Piaget’s theory, a form of adaptation where new experiences are fitted into existing mental structures, such as an infant treating a new toy like familiar graspable objects by shaking or mouthing it; (3) in phonetics, a sound change where one speech sound becomes more like a neighbouring sound, such as English plural /s/ being voiced to [z] after voiced consonants (dogs) but remaining [s] after voiceless consonants (cats), a pattern explored via tools like the wug test; (4) in persuasion and social judgment, reducing the gap between one’s attitude and a message/source; (5) in memory, distortion that makes a memory more like existing memories, also found in serial reproduction and rumour transmission and related to levelling and sharpening; and (6) in perception, a tendency for perceived properties of objects/images to shift toward characteristics of adjacent stimuli (as in colour assimilation). The verb is assimilate, and assimilative describes what involves assimilation; the word comes from Latin roots meaning “to make similar.”
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