Key Concepts
A person’s psychological orientation toward life, shaped by culture and experience.
What is worldview?
A variable that the researcher manipulates in an experiment.
What is an independent variable?
Client from a collectivistic background presents with this negative feeling.
What is shame?
A framework showing biological, psychological, social, and cultural levels interact to shape behavior.
What is bio-psycho-social model?
Shifting between languages, dialects, or communication styles based on context or social situation.
What is code switching?
The interaction of multiple identities (e.g., race, gender, class) shaping experience.
What is intersectionality?
The type of validity that is concerned with whether results can be generalized to other contexts.
What is external validity?
An immigrant student stops speaking their native language and adopts U.S. customs, letting go of heritage traditions to better fit into the culture.
What is assimilation?
This model helps us understand the refugee experience. It is a series of stages that unfold over time.
What is Berry’s Six-Stage Refugee Career Model?
Conversations are guided by a shared rules, or a "cooperative principle," where people seek to communicate sincerely and effectively.
What are the 4 maxims (e.g, Grice’s Cooperative Principle)?
Observable elements of culture like food, dress, and music.
What is surface structure of culture?
The design that combines cross-sectional and longitudinal methods.
What is the sequential method?
Applying one’s own cultural assumptions to interpret another culture
What is imposed etics?
The model proposes that cultural groups differ in how they answer universal questions about time, activity, relationships, and nature.
What is Kluckhohn & Strodtbeck’s Value Dimensions Model?
This type of equivalence ensures that a psychological measure captures the same meaning across different cultural groups, even if the words or expressions differ.
What is conceptual equivalence?
The stress from navigating two or more cultures.
What is acculturative stress?
The type of bias introduced when a test is used inappropriately.
What is bias in the usage?
A client is carefully navigate situations to avoid embarrassment or to prevent others from being embarrassed. They are ___.
What is "saving face"?
This model explains how individuals’ locus of control and locus of responsibility combine to shape their worldview.
What is Derald Wing Sue’s Worldview Model?
This ethical principle in research emphasizes maximizing benefits to participants while avoiding harm.
What is beneficence and nonmaleficence?