Chapter 1

Question 1

Multicultural Psychology

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Culture (technical definitions)

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Culture (broad vs narrow)

Answer 3

Narrow - only race, ethnicity, nationality

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

Question 4

Six uses of culture in everyday language

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Worldview

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Diversity

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Biological concept of race

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Sociocultural concept of race

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Early conceptualizations of race (Blumenbach)

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Linnaeus (1758) development of race

Answer 10

African, Asian/Mongloid, Caucasian, Indian

Question 11

Origin of Caucasian

Answer 11

Caucasus Mountains have skull specimens that are ‘perfect’

Question 12

Origins and history of race

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Genetics and race now

Answer 13

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

Question 14

AAA conclusion concerning justifiability of race

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Ethnicity

Answer 15

a combination of race and culture ex. African American

Question 16

Culture contact

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Cross-culture psychology

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Multiculturalism as the fourth force

Answer 18

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

Question 19

paradigm shift

Answer 19

a major change in the way people think about a field

Question 20

biopsychosocial model

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Negative cognitive triad

Answer 21

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