c Flashcards
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Myth
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- traditional story
- especially one concerning the early history of people or
- explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural being or events
- a widely held but false belief or idea
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folklore
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- traditional beliefs, customs and stories of a communit, passes from generation to generation by word of mouth
- a body of popular myths and beliefs relating to a particular place, activity, or group of people
- some food beliefs have some scientific basis ex carrot is good for eyesight
- some food beliefs are unsupported, may contradict science and can be dangerous
- food scientists and nutritionists need to know these folklores as they
- influence popular view about diet and health
- have an impact on public health
- our bodies are constanitly changing replaceing its componenets with molecules from the food we eat and air we breathe
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Anecdote
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- a short and amusing or interesing story about a real incident or person
- an account regarded as unreliable or hearsay
- Hypothesis
- In science, a hypothesis is an idea or explanation that you test through study and experimentation
- outside science, a theory or guess can also be calles a hypothesis
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Blind studies
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- test subject doesn’t know whether(s)her receives the test substance or a placebo
- has no expectations about the result
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Double blind studies
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neither the experimenter nor the test subject knows
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statistical treatment of data
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estimate the degree of certainty
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deductive logic
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- reasoning from one or more statements to reach a logically cetain conclusion
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inductive logic
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- use a st of facts and outcome for one situation, and generalize it to others
- suggests truth but does ensure it
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deductive logic
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reasonning from one or more statements to reach a logically certain conclusion
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inductive logic
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- use a set of facts and outcome for one situation, and geralize it to other
- suggests truth but does not ensure it
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controlled experiments
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- provide conditions that you want to test, that could potrntially cause a positive result
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Nocebo effect
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an effect is observed that has a negative outcome following an expectation of the negative outcome
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folklore from around
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- folk(people ) +lore (stories
- folklore is made up of fictional stories told bu people with a shared culture
ex : myths, legends, fairly tales, fables, and tall tales and common types of folklore - a myth is an acient story
- some myths explain beliefes or natural phenomena
- other myths teach lessons
- many time characters have superhuman powers
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legends
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- a legends is a story with basic in fact
- the story may have been exaggerated or changed
- legeneds may also explain natural phenomena or teach lessons
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fairly tales-
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- is a children’s story that involves magic
- it usually has a strong theme of good versus evil
- fairy tales usually have happy ending and teach lesson
