English Flashcards
happens when people are too reliant on current information or the initial information they find
Anchoring bias
this happens when journalists and new producers in the mass media select
Media Bias
happens when one tends to search for, interpret, favor, and remember information
Confirmation
happens when one makes a wrong or uncomfortable decision to fit in
Conformity
happens when sees the wonderful thing about a person
Halo effect
is the idea that groups of people exhibit different personality characteristics
Racism
a prejudice based on sex or gender
sexism
prejudice base on social class or grouping of individuals
Classism
prejudicial attitude towards older people
Ageism
the attitude towards a person of group differently
Religion
single-sided, illogical, and non-neutral support of a viewpoint in favor
Bias
commonly used to refer to reconceived judgment toward a person
Prejudice
generally defined as verb forms used as another part of speech
verbal
Kind of Verbals:
Gerunds
Participle
Infinitives
verb form ending in ING used as nouns, They are identical to the resent
Gerunds
gerund with modifiers or a compliment, all acting together as a noun
Gerund phrase
(can also be called _______ only) usually comes before the verbs, both action-linking verb
Subject of the sentence
usually comes after the linking verb
Subject complement (SC)-
usually comes after the action verb
Direct object (DO)
object of the preposition comes after the preposition
Object of Preposition (OP)
always between two comments
Appositive (A)
usually comes before verb, both action verb and linking verb
Gerund as a subject
usually comes after the action verb
Gerund as a Direct Object
is a form that generally appears with the word “to” and acts as a noun
Infinitives
infinitive with modifiers, a compliment, or a subject
Infinitive phrase
verbal that function as an adjective
Participles -
modified by an adverb or adverb phrase that has a compliment
Participle phrase
always ending in ING are created form the verb
present participle
always ending in ED or EN, are created from the verb from a verb
past participle
she grew up where?
UNIVERSITY CAMPUS OF EASTERN NIGERIA
she started reading at the age of? And what kind of books?
two (book: British and American children’s books)
writer at age of?
age 7
Because of who? made her mind went through a mental shift in perception
Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye
what are her parents drive
father is Professor
mother is Administrator
Horrific rape in Congo and depressing ones
5,000 people
American writer
Alice Walker wrote this about her Southern relatives who had moved to the north
