When Milton's Car Won't Start One Morning, He Assumes That

When Milton's car won't start one morning, he assumes that the battery is dead because in his schema of cars, dead batteries are the cause for not starting. After Milton charges his battery and is still unable to start his car, he realizes that the problem is with the transmission. Even though his schema caused Milton to waste time doing the wrong thing, it is still adaptive because:

A) he only found the transmission problem by trying to charge the battery
B) charging the battery is usually the right solution to the problem
C) it is easier to charge a battery than it is to fix the transmission
D) it gave him a place to start in solving the problem

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