General Terms
Customs, values, attitudes, beliefs, art, and language shared by a group
What is culture?
This theory asserts that a relationship will endure if the rewards are greater than the costs.
What is social exchange theory?
When a person has two negative alternatives, it is called an...
What is an avoidance-avoidance conflict?
A culturally sensitive counselor believes in integrating different cultures while maintaining their separate identities.
What is the salad bowl model of diversity?
A client tells his counselor that he is attracted to a gorgeous woman who is also abusive. Kurt Lewin would call this...
What is approach-avoidance conflict?
This term describes biological similarities and sameness.
What is universal culture?
The first pioneer to focus heavily on sociocultural issues.
Who is Frank Parsons, the father of guidance/vocational counseling?
A client tells her counselor she has the choice of entering one of two prestigious PhD counseling programs. Kurt Lewin would call this an...
What is an approach-approach conflict?
In cross-cultural counseling, the nature of counseling is described during the initial session.
What is structuring?
A client will accept suggestions more readily if the client likes the counselor.
What is Charles Osgood and Percey Tannenbaum’s congruity theory?
This term implies that behavior must be assessed in the context of the culture in which the behavior occurs.
What is contextualism?
The belief that aggression is learned (a child who witnesses aggressive behavior in adults may imitate the aggressive behavior)
What is social learning theory?
The professional organization associated with cross-cultural counseling (subdivision of ACA).
What is the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD)?
Generally speaking, a client from this culture would see passivity on the part of the counselor as negative or be disappointed if they did not receive advice or homework.
What is a culture that places a high premium on authority figures?
A culturally sensitive counselor adheres to this term, which means culture specific perspective, from the word phonemic (meaning sounds in a particular language).
What is emic?
If culture is composed of norms and values, this term describes the self-perpetuating independent group which occupies a definitive territory.
What is a society?
Carol Gilligan was critical of this theorist's theory of moral development because she felt is more applicable to men rather than other genders.
Who is Lawrence Kohlberg?
F.H. Allport described this concept: if an individual is given the task of memorizing a list of numbers, this person will perform better if they are part of a group.
What is social facilitation?
What is etic?
After a period of time, one forgets the communicator but remembers the message.
What is the sleeper effect?
Using one's own culture a measure to all other cultures.
This theorist coined the term cognitive dissonance.
Who is Festinger?
An Asian counselor says to a Black client, “If you’re unhappy with the system, get out there and rebel. You can change the system.” This is the _______ viewpoint for coping with the environment.
What is an alloplastic viewpoint?
A young Indigenous man is obviously the victim of discrimination. His counselor remarks, “I hear what you are saying and I will help you change your thinking so this will not have such a profound impact on you.” In this case the counselor had suggested...
What is an autoplastic method of coping?
According to this theory, someone who buys a $20,000 gold watch would most likely read test reports after the purchase to justify his behavior?
What is cognitive dissonance?