Piaget (1952, see Wadsworth 2004), Piaget saw intellectual growth as a process of adaptation to the world through the operations of assimilation and accommodation. Using schemas, assimilation means facing a new situation. When patterns don't work, adaptation is the need to change a new situation. When working with a child who is kind and gentle and respectful shows good behaviors to others in the classroom. One day their behavior changes by disobeying the teacher's rules towards other children. As teachers notice that it's something out of character because it's not something you would expect from that child with the changes in their