Multicultural Psychology Exam 3 Questions Multiple Choices And Verified Answers.

Acculturation - correct answers Experiences and changes that groups and individuals undergo when they come in contact with a different culture. Immigrants - correct answers People who more to another country voluntarily. Refugees - correct answers People who move to another country because they are 'running for their lives'. Acculturation Stress - correct answers Feelings of tension and anxiety caused by the inability to adapt in the new country Assimulationist - correct answers An individual who blends in completely with the host society, taking on the values of the society and rejecting their original values. Separationalist - correct answers An individual who refuses to take on any values of the host society, hanging on to his or her original values completely. Marginalist - correct answers An individual who does not adopt either the host society's values or their own original values. Intrgrationalist - correct answers An individual who holds on to their own original values while also learning and adoption the values of the host culture. Acculturated - correct answers Competent in host culture, but maintains own culture identity as more essential. Fusion - correct answersThe process whereby one's culture is completely dissolved into other cultures, forming a new, homogeneous culture. Alternation - correct answersCompetence in both the host culture and their original culture such that one is able to apply the values and behaviors that are appropriate for the situation. Multicultural Perspective - correct answersThe perspective that there are multiple groups within a society and all groups are mutually appreciated. Premigration Period - correct answersThe time period before migration, when the acculturation process can begin to take place. Migration Period - correct answersThe period when a group is migrating from the country of origin to the host country. This includes the period immediately before migration, when the final feelings about moving are experienced and leave is taken from the family and friends from the country of origin. Postmigration Period - correct answersThe period after settling into the host culture, when the stress of migration continues to be experienced and the adjustment to the new culture takes place. Ecological Fit/Ecological Context - correct answersSimilarity of the social and cultural environments between immigrant's country of origin and new host country. Microsystem - correct answersA layer of context that includes relationships among family members living within one household Mesosystem - correct answersA layer of context that allows for relationships outside of immediate family, such as school, work, extended family, and within their community. Exosystem - correct answersA layer of context that includes major societal institutions, such as the media and the government. Macrosystem - correct answersA layer of context that includes the cultural norms and societal rules that determine rules of conduct. Health - correct answersA complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being; not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Health Behaviors - correct answersBehaviors undertaken by people to enhance or maintain their well-being. Health Psychology - correct answersThe study of psychological influences on how people stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they respond when they do get ill. Health Belief Model - correct answersA set of assumptions that suggests that one's health behavior is affected by one's perception of a personal health threat as well as by how a particular health practice would be effected in reducing the personal health threat. Disparity - correct answersThe condition or fact of being unequal. Allostatic Load - correct answersThe psychological cost of chronic stress. DSM - correct answersPrimary reference manual used in all mental health fields to classify mental disorders. Somatization - correct answersThe expression of mental disorders through physical disorders. Prevalence - correct answersThe current rate of a particular disorder at a given point in time. Incidence - correct answersThe number of new cases of a disorder in a given period of time Lifetime incidence - correct answersThe number if cases if a disorder that occur during ones lifetime. Culture-Bound Syndrom - correct answersDisorders that tend to occur only in certain cultures. Anorexia - correct answersEating disorder marked by such severe restriction of one's diet that the sufferer's weight falls below what would be expected. Bulimia - correct answersEating disorder marked by the consumption of a large amount of food in one sitting (binge) followed by vomiting or other extreme weight loss options. Culture-Bound Values - correct answersCore beliefs of one's culture that relate to principally to that culture and may be inappropriate in another culture. Class-Bound Values - correct answers Core beliefs of one socioeconomic class that relate principally to that class and may be inappropriate for another level of socioeconomic status. Language Variables - correct answers Differences in language of language usage. Multicultural Competence - correct answers The ability to work and be effective with individuals who are of a different culture from yours.