Vocabulary — Nature & Garden
Words are tools. This page holds every key word for this part of the school, drawn from the lessons themselves: how to spell each word, what it means in plain language, and one sentence to remember it by.
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Collateral context
Spells: Collateral context
What it means: the facts around a person or scene — housing, income, health, language, history — that change what their behavior means.
A sentence to remember it by: Collateral context — the facts around a person or scene — housing, income, health, language, history — that change what their behavior means.
Implicit bias
Spells: I-m-p-l-i-c-i-t-b-i-a-s
What it means: automatic associations that can shape a first read of a person without conscious intent; managed by slowing the read, not by denying it exists.
Where you meet it: in the lesson “Environment, Neighborhood, Culture, Race, Income, and Survival Behavior” in this school.
Misread scene
Spells: M-i-s-r-e-a-d-s-c-e-n-e
What it means: an enforcement action built on a first impression that the facts available would have corrected.
A sentence to remember it by: Misread scene — an enforcement action built on a first impression that the facts available would have corrected.
Procedural fairness
Spells: Procedural fairness
What it means: people judging an encounter by whether they were treated with respect, given a voice, and dealt with neutrally — the strongest predictor of whether they cooperate next time.
Where you meet it: in the lesson “Environment, Neighborhood, Culture, Race, Income, and Survival Behavior” in this school.
Survival behavior
Spells: Survival behavior
What it means: conduct shaped by a person's environment and resources (poverty, danger, instability) rather than by criminal intent.
A sentence to remember it by: Knowing the difference between a survival economy and a criminal enterprise is investigative work, not a first-glance call.