Monsters are Due on Maple Street vocabulary/concepts

assent

• agreement

• protest

• discussion

• opposition

metamorphosis

• something to do with science fiction

• a change

• to remain the same

• an immovable object

antagonism

• happiness

• hostility

• calm delight

• active despair

Unusual habit or preference.

• reflective

• incriminate

• idiosyncrasy

• scapegoat

acts that are or appear guilty/illegal

• scapegoat

• assent

• incriminate

• reflective

Someone who is unfairly made to take all the blame for something

• assent

• confirmation bias

• scapegoat

• incriminate

reflective

• confirmation bias

• deep thought, a thinker

• reactive and eruptive

• a light source

Confirmation bias

• believe what we already believe and reject difference

• seeks consensus and unity

• process conflict productively

• to have slanted views

Perpetrator

• someone who carries out an illegal act

• someone who is the victim of a crime

• the police officers at the scene

• the investigation committee

Herd mentality

• the tendency to use reflection and rational thought when in a group

• the tendency to believe what we already believe when in a group

• the tendency of people in a group to think and act like the group

• the tendency to follow your own direction and not be influenced by others.