Multi Cult Ch 1

Question 0

Culture

Answer 0

The values,beliefs,and practices of a group of people, shared through symbols, and passed down from generation to generation

Question 1

Multicultural psychology

Answer 1

The systemic study of behavior, cognition, and affect in settings where people of different backgrounds interacts

Question 2

Diversity

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Differences beyond race, enthicity, and nationality, such as sexual orientations, religions, and abilities.

Question 3

Worldview

Answer 3

A physiological perception of the environment that determines how we think, behave, and feel.

Question 4

Biological concept of race

Answer 4

The perspective that 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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Ethnicity

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A combination of race and culture

Question 7

Cultural 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- cultural psychology

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

Question 9

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 phycology, as psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and humanism did.

Question 10

Paradigm shift

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A major change in the way people think about a field .

Question 11

Biopsychosocial model

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

Structuralism

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The first formal approach to psychological that attempted to examine the contents of people’s minds.

Question 14

Structural introspective

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The method that structuralist used to examine the contents of people’s minds

Question 15

Ethnical psychology

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The study of the minds of “ other races and peoples”

Question 16

Eugenics

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A movement that maintains that only “good genes” should be passed from generation to generation and that “ undesirable” groups should be dissuaded from reproducing