Maladaptive Cognitive Schema is learning (noun) that organizes our knowledge, assumptions, and mental processing habits, in ways that misorient, misdirect, misinform, or otherwise undermine or disable learning (verb).
Maladaptive
adj.
1. Marked by faulty or inadequate adaptation.
2. Not assisting or promoting adaptation.
Cognitive Schema
Structures that organize our knowledge and assumptions about something and are used for interpreting and processing information. (wiki)
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