All behavioural learning in humans is an active process in which data are perceived and interpreted in relation to the cognitive systems that the individual has already constructed; these are then possibly modified to take account of new data- in Piaget’s terminology, there is assimilitation and accommodation [Piaget, J. and Inhelder, B. 1969. The Psychology of the Child (trans. Helen Weaver). London: Routledge].
- Le Page (1977), Pag. 225