According to cognitive psychologists, the most common form of thinking involves mental representations that are called concepts. For the cognitive psychologists, thinking is being able to manipulate mental representations of the information available in order to give solutions to problems and to obtain conclusions. Concepts are categories of ideas and objects that are grouped according to certain properties that the objects or ideas share. An example of this would be having a candle and a match in a very dark room, you have objects in from of you and you have already ideas on what likely are the outcomes using the materials. So, by lighting the candle you solve the problem of darkness.<span />
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The warlords were a problem for the Zhou dynasty because the Zhou dynasty was never an entirely unified realm and the local warlords became less identified with the Zhou king and more with their allocated territories.
<u>Explanation:</u>
<em>The Zhou court extended its power by granting authority to members of the royal family and in some cases to favoured local warlords, who established confined forts supported by garrison troops. In some cases, local warlords were accepted as Zhou supporters. The warlords became a problem when they challenged the Zhou order and weren’t quickly dealt with by the army. The ruling class was mainly unified by kinship ties. Family relations were strenghthened by arranged marriages where no kinship links actually existed. In this way, the local lords were expected to accept the authority of the king as the head of the Dynasty. </em>
<em>As time went on, the kinship ties were no longer there and the local warlords became less identified with the Zhou king and more with their allocated territories. This tendency was very strong in larger peripheral states. Regional leaders started to ignore their duties to the Zhou court and also started fighting among themselves by the 9th century BCE.</em>
<span>A) Ottoman Empire
This is the only reasonable answer, since it was the nation that disintegrated after World War 1
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