Chapter 1 Flashcards

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Multicultural Psychology

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the systematic study of behavior, cognition, and affect in settings where people of different backgrounds interact

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Culture (technical definitions)

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1- the values, beliefs and practices of a group of people, shared through symbols and passed down from generation
2 - socially transmitted beliefs values and practices & shared ideas and habits

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Culture (broad vs narrow)

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Narrow - only race, ethnicity, nationality

Broad - all potentially salient ethnographic, demographic, status or affiliation identities

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Six uses of culture in everyday language

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descriptive, historical, normative, psychological, structural, and genetic

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Worldview

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a psychological perception of the environment that determines how we think, behave, and feel

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Diversity

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differences beyond race, ethnicity, and nationality such as sexual orientations, religions abilities

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Biological concept of race

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the perspective that a a race is a group of people who share a specific combination of physical, genetically inherited characteristics that distinguish them from other groups

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Sociocultural concept of race

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the perspective that characteristics, values, and behaviors that have been associated with groups of people who share different physical characteristics serve the social purpose of providing a way for outsiders to view another group and for members of a group to perceive themselves

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Early conceptualizations of race (Blumenbach)

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based on shape of the skull: caucasian/white, mongolian/yellow, malayan/brown, ethiopian/negro/black, american/red

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Linnaeus (1758) development of race

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African, Asian/Mongloid, Caucasian, Indian

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Origin of Caucasian

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Caucasus Mountains have skull specimens that are ‘perfect’

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Origins and history of race

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18th cent. - european explorers come to the Americas and describe native americans
18th - 19th cent. - race became a concept as a science (linnaues)

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Genetics and race now

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physiological differences among racial groups are superficial, and we have more genetic similarities than differences
- greater variation within groups than across groups

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AAA conclusion concerning justifiability of race

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race is not a legitimate biological or genetic construct; rather it is an ideology used to justify the domination of one identifiable group of people by another. Just one race, the human race

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Ethnicity

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a combination of race and culture ex. African American

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Culture contact

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critical incidents in which people from different cultures come into social contact with one another either (a) by living and working with one another on a daily basis or (b) through visiting other countries on a temporary basis, such as for business, tourism, or study

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Cross-culture psychology

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the study of comparisons across cultures or countries as opposed to comparisons of groups within one society

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Multiculturalism as the fourth force

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the idea that multicultural psychology is so important that it will fundamentally change the direction of the field of psychology as psychoanalysis, behaviorism and humanism did before

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paradigm shift

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a major change in the way people think about a field

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biopsychosocial model

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a model of human behavior that takes into consideration biological, cognitive-affective, social interpersonal, social and institutional and cultural factors

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Negative cognitive triad

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Beck’s label for the negative view depressed individuals tend to have of themselves, the world, and the future