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Safety and Society
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Undergraduate 1
12/09/2010

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Term
Safety
Definition
The control of recognized hazards to achieve an acceptable level of risk.
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Loss
Definition
The decrease in a value and if it is eliminated it is called total loss.
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Loss
Definition
The decrease in a value and if it is eliminated it is called total loss.
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Accident
Definition
any event that happens unexpectedly without a deliberate plans or cause and usually results in harm, injury, damage or loss
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Risk
Definition
An expression of the combined severity and probability of loss
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Mistake
Definition
An error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, and insufficient knowledge
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Error
Definition
The difference between desired and actual performance.
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Risk Tolerance
Definition
Maximum level of risk that a person will assume in any given activity.
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Risk Perception
Definition
The subjective judgment that people make about the characteristics and severity of a risk.
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Risk Compensation
Definition
An effect whereby individual people may tend to adjust their behavior in response to perceived change in risk.
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Hostile Aggression
Definition
Primary goal is to inflict physical injury or psychological harm
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Instrumental Aggression
Definition
Occurs in quest of a non-aggressive goal
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Assertion
Definition
Goal directed behavior that may, and often does, involve the sue of legitimate verbal and physical force. Exhibits no intent to injure and does not violate the conservatively agreed upon rules of the sport. Often mislabeled.
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Intrinsic Motivation
Definition
motivation that comes from inside an individual rather than from any external or outside rewards such as money or grades.
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Extrinsic Motivation
Definition
motivation that comes from factors outside an individual
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Overconfidance Bias
Definition
Someone’s subjective confidence in their judgments is reliably greater than their objective accuracy, especially when confidence is relatively high.
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Recency Bias
Definition
A tendency for some people to focus on “what’s happened lately” when evaluating or judging something.
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Sunk Cost Effect
Definition
Cost endured that shouldn’t effect your future decisions. EX: Gambling.
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Confirming Evidence Trap
Definition
Finding evidence that is something in your favor or that supports your point.
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Terrorism/ Terrorist
Definition
Person who invokes crime or harm for no particular reason.
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Phishing
Definition
The criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
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Skimming
Definition
ATM, 2 storage/swipes
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Virus
Definition
A computer programs that copies itself and infects another computer.
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Worm
Definition
A self replicating malware computer program that uses a computer network to send copies of itself to other nodes.
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