Multicultural Psychology
A shared system of values, beliefs, customs, and behaviors passed from one generation to the next.
What is culture?
The group that receives the treatment in an experiment.
What is the experimental group?
This acronym refers to populations that are Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic.
What is WEIRD?
The study of personal space during communication.
What is proxemics?
A college provides wheelchair ramps, sign language interpreters, and extended testing accommodations when needed. Which principle is being applied?
What is Equity?
This concept recognizes that people hold multiple identities that shape their experiences simultaneously.
What is intersectionality?
The ability to draw cause-and-effect conclusions from a study.
What is internal validity?
This approach examines behavior from within a specific culture's perspective.
What is an emic approach?
The study of body language, gestures, and facial expressions.
What is kinesics?
A researcher compares depression across countries without first determining whether depression is understood similarly in each culture. What aspect of cross-cultural research is most threatened?
What is Conceptual equivalence?
Treating everyone exactly the same regardless of need is an example of this rather than equity.
What is equality?
Researchers interview participants about their experiences with racism and analyze common themes.
What is qualitative research?
According to Sue and Sue, prioritizing group goals over personal goals reflects this cultural value.
What is collectivism?
Communication that relies heavily on context, relationships, and nonverbal cues.
What is high-context communication?
A person speaks two languages fluently because they learned both naturally from birth rather than in school. What is this called?
What is Native bilingualism?
A student assumes all cultures should follow the same traditions as their own because those traditions are "better."
What is ethnocentrism?
A researcher follows the same group of students from freshman year through graduation.
What is longitudinal research?
According to Harro's Cycle of Socialization, rewards for conforming to societal expectations and punishments for challenging them are called this.
What are enforcements?
A student says, "Maybe there could be another way to look at this," instead of openly disagreeing with a professor.
What is indirect communication?
Rather than using "minority," multicultural psychologists emphasize power and social position using terms such as ALANA and VREG. Why?
"Minority" focuses on numerical size rather than power/privilege
A psychologist explains anxiety by examining genetics, family relationships, peer influences, and cultural expectations.
What is the biopsychosocial model?
Researchers find that a depression measure functions differently across cultures even though the items are translated correctly.
What is a problem with metric equivalence?
A person believes societal barriers affect opportunities, but individuals are still responsible for their own choices.
What is an external locus of control and an internal locus of responsibility?
Grice would likely criticize a speaker who gives a five-minute answer to a yes-or-no question for violating which maxim?
What is the Maxim of Quantity?
A student claims race is a biological fact because racial categories have always existed. Which historical topic from Chapter 1 challenges this claim?
What is Historical racial taxonomies/social construction of race?