Flashcards : Conspiracy Theories and Modals (32 cartes)

A spacecraft crash with aliens inside near a military base.

A prehistoric giant man covered in hair living in American forests and mountains.

It was a joke by students.

They are caused by an evil plan that cannot otherwise be explained.

A conspirator who invents the conspiracy, a plan involving world domination and mass manipulation.

A conspirator.

World domination and mass manipulation.

The brain's tendency to identify a situation with known patterns.

Because the brain associates dark clouds with rain and shadows with predators.

It can find patterns where there is nothing.

The tendency to focus on information that agrees with existing beliefs and ignore other information.

It can make people eventually believe the false information is true.

Corrections may fade faster than the original myth, so the myth is not necessarily erased.

A strong deduction or certainty.

Possibility.

Impossibility.

Using 'must have' followed by a past participle.

Extraterrestrial lizards that took human form to invade Earth.

Illuminati, Freemasons, Jews, Bilderberg Group, Skull and Bones, Big Pharma, military-industrial complex, global elites.

It is a neurotransmitter involved in emotion, reward, and cognition.

It may encourage belief in conspiracy theories.

Because much information they receive is true and this assumption is easier to process.

People tend to give the same incorrect answer as the group.

A possible future situation.

To enable or to allow.

Wider.

Loss.

Awakenings.

To avoid or to avert.

Insight.

Trigger.

In insolation.