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Psyc 435 Exam 1 with verified detailed answers
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What is multicultural psychology and why is it important? - ✔✔Study of human behavior
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and mental processing in mixed cultural backgrounds. It is important to understand and
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learn about people of different backgrounds.
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Culture - ✔✔Norms, values, beliefs, and other traditions that are shared by a group of
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people
Pervasive and invisible, socially constructed
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Ethnicity - ✔✔Race and culture
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Multiculturalism - ✔✔Psychology, tolerance, and a deep understanding of other cultures
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Social justice - ✔✔Ideal and fair distribution to all resources
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Major tenants of multicultural psychology - ✔✔1. Meta- theory (theory for a theory)
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2. An abundance of identities
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3. Culture influences behavior towards self and others
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4. Culture is very important in therapy
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5. Psychologists need to break away from tradition and broaden scope
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6. Liberation/ critical consciousness is the basic goal. Using dialogue to respect other
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realities
Dialogue - ✔✔Having empathy and trying to understand others point of views
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Etic perspective - ✔✔Find similar meaning across different cultures (universal)
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Emic perspective - ✔✔Find meaning in concepts of one specific culture (culturally specific)
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Individualism - ✔✔Independent view of the self and does not see identity being dependent
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on others
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Collectivism - ✔✔Group/ family oriented and views the self as a whole with other members
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of the group.
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Idiocentrism - ✔✔Individualism in an individual || || || || ||
Allocentrism - ✔✔Collectivism in an individual || || || || ||
Counter-cultural individuals - ✔✔Idiocentrics in a collectivistic culture or allocentrics in an
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individualistic culture
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Guilt - ✔✔Individual sense of regret. You did something bad (individual)
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Shame - ✔✔Individual regret of negative behavior that reflects badly upon group. You are a
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bad person (collective)
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How do common theories and frameworks for counseling reflect certain cultural
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assumptions - ✔✔Therapy in the US is euro-centric. Counseling in US focuses on
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individual, emotional expressiveness and standard English.
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Psyc 435 Exam 1 with verified detailed answers
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What is multicultural psychology and why is it important? - ✔✔Study of human behavior
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and mental processing in mixed cultural backgrounds. It is important to understand and
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learn about people of different backgrounds.
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Culture - ✔✔Norms, values, beliefs, and other traditions that are shared by a group of
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people
Pervasive and invisible, socially constructed
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Ethnicity - ✔✔Race and culture
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Multiculturalism - ✔✔Psychology, tolerance, and a deep understanding of other cultures
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Social justice - ✔✔Ideal and fair distribution to all resources
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Major tenants of multicultural psychology - ✔✔1. Meta- theory (theory for a theory)
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2. An abundance of identities
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3. Culture influences behavior towards self and others
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4. Culture is very important in therapy
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5. Psychologists need to break away from tradition and broaden scope
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6. Liberation/ critical consciousness is the basic goal. Using dialogue to respect other
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realities
Dialogue - ✔✔Having empathy and trying to understand others point of views
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, 2
Etic perspective - ✔✔Find similar meaning across different cultures (universal)
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Emic perspective - ✔✔Find meaning in concepts of one specific culture (culturally specific)
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Individualism - ✔✔Independent view of the self and does not see identity being dependent
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on others
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Collectivism - ✔✔Group/ family oriented and views the self as a whole with other members
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of the group.
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Idiocentrism - ✔✔Individualism in an individual || || || || ||
Allocentrism - ✔✔Collectivism in an individual || || || || ||
Counter-cultural individuals - ✔✔Idiocentrics in a collectivistic culture or allocentrics in an
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individualistic culture
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Guilt - ✔✔Individual sense of regret. You did something bad (individual)
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Shame - ✔✔Individual regret of negative behavior that reflects badly upon group. You are a
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bad person (collective)
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How do common theories and frameworks for counseling reflect certain cultural
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assumptions - ✔✔Therapy in the US is euro-centric. Counseling in US focuses on
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individual, emotional expressiveness and standard English.
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