The process of modifying or adjusting an existing scheme or psychological structure in order to act upon or know an object, event, or person. For example, a child accommodates his grasping scheme when he adjusts his hand movements to fit the contours of a particular object. In Piaget‘s theory, accommodation must occur in tandem with assimilation in the process of equilibration.
See Assimilation, Cognitive development, Equilibration, Scheme