What term describes a tendency to use less than optimal problem-solving approaches as a result of prior experiences?

In regard to personality traits, there is some evidence that adolescence is a time of

A) relative consistency so that personality traits in childhood are consistent throughout adolescence. B) large changes in personality traits that occur between childhood and adulthood. C) unpredictability. D) development of personality traits that cannot be observed in children.

During __________, children use their current schemes to interpret the external world, whereas in __________, children create new schemes or adjust old ones after noticing that their current ways of thinking do not capture the environment completely

A) assimilation; accommodation B) equilibration; disequilibration C) adaptation; organization D) accommodation; assimilation