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Glossary







           biracial                                paralyze
           Involving people from two races.        To make (someone or
                                                   something) unable to function,
           critic                                  act, or move.
           A person who gives opinions or
           who disapproves of something.           psychiatrist
                                                   A doctor who treats mental or
           delusion                                emotional disorders.
           A belief in the reality of
           something that is not real.             skeptic
                                                   A person who questions or
           hallucination                           doubts something.
           An image, sound, or smell that
           seems real but does not exist.          stereotype
                                                   An often unfair and untrue
           hypnosis                                belief about other people or
           A sleep-like state in which a           things.
           person can hear and respond
           to questions or suggestions.            trauma
                                                   A very difficult or unpleasant
           myth                                    experience that causes
           A story repeated over time to           someone to have mental
           explain a practice, belief, or          or emotional problems,
           natural occurrence.                     usually for a long time.

           neuroscience
           The study of the structure and
           function of the brain.



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