Answer the following TRUE/FALSE questions to help you prepare for the Assassinations lesson check.
Although you do not need to provide an explanation in this assignment, you should be able to give an explanation if you want to do well on the lesson check (ex: if you answer false, you should be able to explain why it is false). If you cannot provide an explanation or are unsure of an answer, please see Ms. Sullivan to get help!!!
The assassination attempt on Donald Trump proves that almost all conspiracy theories come from Republicans.
Disinformation is when a person accidentally shares the wrong information with someone.
Human beings are prone to confirmation bias, which means that we tend to interpret new information in a way that is consistent with our existing beliefs.
An eyewitness account is a report given by a person who was at an event and saw it happen.
Conspiracy theories tend to spread more when the country is politically polarized.
Conspiracy theories tend to spread more when people feel safe and secure.
The advent of social media has helped to stop the spread of conspiracy theories.
The actions of the U.S. government can sometimes cause conspiratorial thinking and at other times can prevent conspiratorial thinking.
Pizzagate was an actual conspiracy and not a conspiracy theory.
One way that a conspiracy differs from a conspiracy theory is that a conspiracy theory usually uses evidence that is questionable but hard to disprove.
According to current research, the human brain has adapted to detect patterns in our environment.
Conspiracies are always secret plans that are carried out for political reasons.
After the Zapruder Film and the Warren Commission Report were released, most Americans believed the official account of JFK's assassination, that Lee Harvey Oswald was the only person responsible for the killing.
One reason why so many conspiracy theories developed surrounding the assassinations of the 1960s was that this decade was chaotic and scary for a lot of people.
Human beings are very good at accurately detecting probability and chance.