Answer:
This example applies to standard American culture:
- Religion: most people in America are Christians, both Protestant and Catholic. Before Europeans came, Native Americans had their own religions, and in recent times, Catholicism has grown due to the migration of Hispanics, who are majority Catholic.
- Economic activity: until the mid 18th century, the majority of Americans were farmers. Ever since, industry, and later, services, became the economic occupations of the majority of people.
- Language: in the Midwest. German used to be spoken by a large part of the population. With time, due to both americanization, and repression, German essentially disappeared, and English became the majority language.
Answer:
Functional fixedness
Explanation:
Functional fixedness is described as one of the cognitive biases that hamper an individual's tendency to use specific objects in similar ways as it has always been used i.e, traditionally. It was initiated by Gestalt psychology. When an individual is encountering functional fixedness then his or her capability of looking at an object's other potential uses in being hindered by its intended purpose.
A person can overcome functional fixedness by utilizing an object in various ways by believing that he or she use it in either way.
In the question above, the given statement signifies that Ben has overcome functional fixedness.
Carl Linnaeus classified organisms by appearance and physical features. In his time, this was accepted. As time went on, he was deemed incorrect due to new discoveries. However, he did help the scientific community in another way. He classified organisms with their common ancestors.
US Constitution but at one point it was the Articles of Confederation
