English Flashcards

(36 cards)

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happens when people are too reliant on current information or the initial information they find

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Anchoring bias

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this happens when journalists and new producers in the mass media select

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Media Bias

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happens when one tends to search for, interpret, favor, and remember information

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Confirmation

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4
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happens when one makes a wrong or uncomfortable decision to fit in

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Conformity

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5
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happens when sees the wonderful thing about a person

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Halo effect

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6
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is the idea that groups of people exhibit different personality characteristics

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Racism

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7
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a prejudice based on sex or gender

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sexism

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8
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prejudice base on social class or grouping of individuals

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Classism

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9
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prejudicial attitude towards older people

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Ageism

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10
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the attitude towards a person of group differently

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Religion

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single-sided, illogical, and non-neutral support of a viewpoint in favor

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Bias

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12
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commonly used to refer to reconceived judgment toward a person

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Prejudice

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13
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generally defined as verb forms used as another part of speech

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verbal

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Kind of Verbals:

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Gerunds
Participle
Infinitives

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15
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verb form ending in ING used as nouns, They are identical to the resent

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Gerunds

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gerund with modifiers or a compliment, all acting together as a noun

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Gerund phrase

17
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(can also be called _______ only) usually comes before the verbs, both action-linking verb

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Subject of the sentence

18
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usually comes after the linking verb

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Subject complement (SC)-

19
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usually comes after the action verb

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Direct object (DO)

20
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object of the preposition comes after the preposition

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Object of Preposition (OP)

21
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always between two comments

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Appositive (A)

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usually comes before verb, both action verb and linking verb

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Gerund as a subject

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usually comes after the action verb

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Gerund as a Direct Object

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is a form that generally appears with the word “to” and acts as a noun

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infinitive with modifiers, a compliment, or a subject
Infinitive phrase
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verbal that function as an adjective
Participles -
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modified by an adverb or adverb phrase that has a compliment
Participle phrase
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always ending in ING are created form the verb
present participle
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always ending in ED or EN, are created from the verb from a verb
past participle
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she grew up where?
UNIVERSITY CAMPUS OF EASTERN NIGERIA
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she started reading at the age of? And what kind of books?
two (book: British and American children’s books)
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writer at age of?
age 7
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Because of who? made her mind went through a mental shift in perception
Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye
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what are her parents drive
father is Professor mother is Administrator
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Horrific rape in Congo and depressing ones
5,000 people
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American writer
Alice Walker wrote this about her Southern relatives who had moved to the north