“As Piaget (1950) described, people use a set of assumptions to guide how they make meaning of their experience until they encounter dissonance. Experiences that conflict with their assumptions are often assimilated into their current structure. If the dissonance is substantial enough that it cannot be easily assimilated into the current structure, individuals revise their assumptions to accommodate the new experience, resulting in growth toward more complex meaning making.” http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa… I have an understanding of something. This is basically considered to be a “set” or “cognitive set.” An event of some kind occurs in which I experience something (through assimilation) as associated with the set. As this causes cognitive dissonance, I change the way I think about it (accommodation), which then eases the dissonance, and my meaning of the thing has n