Question

Sylvester has just learned how to pick up his cat named chester. chester likes to be picked up and does not put up any struggle. later, sylvester tries to pick up another cat named thai. thai is a siamese cat who scratches when held. the fact that sylvester learns to adjust his original cat-lifting scheme after he has been scratched by thai provides a good example of

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: accommodation.
accommodation. in psychology refers to a situation when a new information come and change an existing schema in your head. But rather than making a new information for the schema, you change the information so it would fit to your pre-existing schema.
This process would often lead to confirmation bias.