Behavioral Science Vocabulary:
● Values: beliefs that each person considers important for
themselves and possibly for the community as a whole.
● Beliefs: specific ideas that members of communities or cultures
hold to be true.
● Cultures: the values, beliefs, systems of language,
communication, and practices that people share in common
and that can be used to define them as a group. Culture also
includes the material objects that are common to that group or
society to include: food, language, clothing, tools, music, arts,
customs, beliefs, and religion.
● Custom: a cultural idea that describes a patterned way of
behaving that is characteristic of life in a social system.
● Indigenous: Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic
groups whose members are directly descended from the
earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region
and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of
those original peoples.
● Religious: organized and integrated set of beliefs, behaviours,
and norms centred on basic social needs and values.
● Group: a number of people located together.
● Development: improvement or progress for a culture/region.
● Community: a social group of any size whose members reside
in a specific locality, share government, and often have a
common cultural and historical heritage.
● Tradition: customs or beliefs passed down from generations.
Name: ______________________
Date: __________
Behavioral Science Vocabulary Fill in the Blanks
● Values: ____________ that each person considers
______________________ for themselves and possibly for the
______________________ as a whole.
● Beliefs: specific ______________ that members of
___________________ or ________________ hold to be true.
● Cultures: the ___________________, ________________,
systems of _____________________, communication, and
____________________ that people share in common and
that can be used to define them as a group. Culture also
includes the material objects that are common to that group
or society to include: ___________________, language,
clothing, tools, music, arts, __________________,
_____________________, and religion.
● Custom: a cultural idea that describes a patterned
_________________________________ that is characteristic of
life in a social system.
● Indigenous: culturally distinct groups whose members are
directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of
a particular geographic _______________________ and, to
some extent, maintain the ______________________ and
___________________________ of those original peoples.
● Religious: organized and integrated set of
__________________, behaviours, and norms centred on
basic social needs and ______________________.
● Group: a number of people located ___________________.
● Development: improvement or _______________________
for a ____________________________________________.
● Community: a social group of any size whose members
reside in a specific ____________, share government, and
often have a common ____________________ and
historical ______________________.
● Tradition: _____________________ or
____________________ passed down from
________________________________.
Behavioral Science Vocabulary: KEY
● Values: beliefs that each person considers important for
themselves and possibly for the community as a whole.
● Beliefs: specific ideas that members of communities or cultures
hold to be true.
● Cultures: the values, beliefs, systems of language,
communication, and practices that people share in common
and that can be used to define them as a group. Culture also
includes the material objects that are common to that group or
society to include: food, language, clothing, tools, music, arts,
customs, beliefs, and religion.
● Custom: a cultural idea that describes a patterned way of
behaving that is characteristic of life in a social system.
● Indigenous: Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic
groups whose members are directly descended from the
earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region
and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of
those original peoples.
● Religious: organized and integrated set of beliefs, behaviours,
and norms centred on basic social needs and values.
● Group: a number of people located together.
● Development: improvement or progress for a culture/region.
● Community: a social group of any size whose members reside
in a specific locality, share government, and often have a
common cultural and historical heritage.
● Tradition: customs or beliefs passed down from generations.