Domain-Specific Problem-Solving Strategies Make Decisions Based on Evolutionarily Earlier Events

question 19

Short Answer

Domain-specific problem-solving strategies make decisions based on evolutionarily earlier events or _____ for particular happenings rather than ones seen in our present environment. For example, if you hear a noise late at night, you are likely to feel afraid even though it is probably nothing dangerous.

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Definitions:

Emancipation Proclamation

A presidential decree by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, declaring the freedom of all enslaved persons in Confederate-held territory during the American Civil War.

Unconstitutional

Actions or laws that are not in accordance with the constitution and therefore illegal and invalid.

Commander-in-chief

The highest-ranking officer of a nation's military forces, or the supreme authority over a country's armed forces; in the United States, it is the President.

Dorothea Dix

An American activist on behalf of the indigent mentally ill who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums.