Key Terms 1 Flashcards
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What is ageism?
Feelings of impatience, intolerance, or prejudice based on negative attitudes and stereotypes toward a person or group of people because of their age.
p. 100
What does it mean to assimilate?
Adopt the traditions of the larger society.
p. 99
What is bias?
A point of view that prevents a person from being impartial.
p. 100
What defines a blended family?
A couple with two or more children, one or more of whom is the natural child of one or both members of the couple and at least one is the stepchild of one of the partners.
p. 103
What does cisgender mean?
A term designating a person whose sense of personal identity corresponds to the sex and gender assigned to them at birth or corresponds with their birth sex.
p. 100
What is cultural competence?
The ability of a person to interact effectively with people from diverse cultural, gender, or socioeconomic backgrounds.
p. 101
What is cultural conflict?
Negative feelings and conduct that can result when people from one culture try to impose their own set of values and behaviours on people from another culture.
p. 100
What does cultural safety refer to?
Actively inviting and creating a space for cultural expression within health care.
p. 101
What is culture?
The characteristics of a group of people, including language, values, beliefs, customs, habits, ways of life, rules for behaviour, music, and traditions.
p. 98
What is diversity?
The state of different individuals and cultures coexisting.
p. 97
What is ethnic identity?
The ethnic background a person feels a part of, based usually on similar language and customs.
p. 98
What does ethnicity mean?
The sharing of a common history, language, geography, national origin, religion, or identity.
p. 98
What is ethnocentrism?
The belief that one’s own culture or ethnic group is better or more important than others’.
p. 98
What is homophobia?
Negative attitudes toward or intolerance of homosexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning their sexuality, or two spirit (see LGBTQ2).
p. 100
What does LGBTQ2 stand for?
An abbreviation that stands for the group of people who identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning their sexuality, or two-spirited.
p. 100
What is a nuclear family?
A family consisting of two partners and a child (or children) who live under one roof and are committed to mutually raising the child or children.
p. XXX
What is personal space?
The area immediately around one’s body.
p. 107
What is prejudice?
An attitude that forms an opinion or prejudges a person based on their membership in a group.
p. 99
What is racism?
Feelings of superiority over, and intolerance of or prejudice toward, a person or group of people who may have different physical appearance or cultural practices.
p. 98
What is a same-sex family?
A family in which both adults who live together in a loving, intimate relationship are of the same gender; they may or may not have children.
p. 103
