**8. The road map of cognitive development**

Learning about the world requires children to be able to anticipate how objects and people will interact with one another. Human perception and comprehension of the environment are influenced by social interaction patterns. Iterative perception leads to an increase in one's world knowledge. A development link is the assimilation process, followed by the accommodation process. Based on Piaget's (1936) argument, learning is related to "equilibration objects and people will interact with one another". Human perception and comprehension of the environment are influenced by social interaction patterns. Iterative perception leads to an increase in one's world knowledge. A development link is the assimilation process, followed by the accommodation process.

**Assimilation:** Children familiarize themselves with new experiences by connecting them to previous ones (i.e., schemes). They may incorporate rattles into their grasping strategy because of previous interactions with sticks or rattles. In accordance with this, when they interpret objects, they have expectations based on their past experiences with sticks.

**Accommodation:** Both children and adults are subject to this process of accommodation. Because every first-time experience varies, youngsters will be able to adapt to these differences and expand their knowledge. The acquisition of updated information and experiences will alter one's existing views of the world (schemas).
