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| take an etic (out-group) approach to abnormal behavior can overpathologize (label normal cultural behavior as abnormal). |
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| take an emic (in-group) approach to abnormal behavior. use cultural informants |
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| found among specific groups and defined as abnormal BY that group. |
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| psychological distress presents in form of physical complaints |
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| Malaysia/Southeast Asia. Symptoms: sleep deprivation, alcohol consumption, homicidal rage, social withdrawal, episodic amnesia. Causes: frustration from cultural tradition of non confrontation |
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| Puerto Rico/Latin America. Symptoms: trembling, shouting, intense crying, heat rising from chest to head, dizziness. Causes: highly interdependent familial structure and going through death/divorce/stress etc. |
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| West Africa/China. Symptoms: Burning sensation in head and neck, visual/intellectual impairment. Causes: pressure of highly valued academic achievement, brain exhaustion. |
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| Canada/United States/Western Europe. Symptoms: distorted body image, fear of being fat, bingeing and purging, weight loss. Causes: emphasis on thinness as aesthetic ideal for women, restrictive cultural sex roles, fear of losing control. |
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| Aboriginal Australia. Symptoms:nervousness, physical illness, fatigue. Causes: ceremonial rituals - failure to perform them can bring on spiritual invasion. |
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| New Zealand Maori. Symptoms: embarrassment, feelings of inadequacy, shame, social withdrawal. Causes: Status and power disparity between indigenous Maori and non-indigenous Pakehas, discrimination. |
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| therapeutic practices rooted within a culture. Within US, abnormal behavior is treated with medicinal remedies. |
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| Samoa is a collection of island in South Pacific, they emigrate to New Zealand and US. Extremely interdependent, there is no "self". Relationships are sacred, violations are serious. Therapeutic interventions (fofo Samoa) involves talking with indigenous healers to establish origin of curse. |
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| social consequences of two groups coming into continuous frist-hand contact. results in changes in cultural patterns of one or both groups. |
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| cultures that integrate want to maintain native heritage and interact with cultural out-groups inside the society. members engage in frame-switching (bicultural individuals can switch between perspectives depending on the situation). |
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| cultures that desire to hold on to native heritage and not interact with cultural out-groups. |
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| cultures desire to let go of their native heritage and adopt the ways of the out-group culture. |
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| is forced assimilation upon a culture without the opportunity to participate in out-group cultures (shunned). |
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| those who move from their heritage culture to a new host culture |
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| migrants who stay in the host culture for a finite period of time, or who move in and out of host and heritage culture. |
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| migrants who relocate permanently to a host culture. |
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| GNI/GDP, military strength,and cultural hegemonic control |
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| degree of dissimilarity between immigrant and host culture, primarily in terms of power |
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| degree to which immigrant culture shares similar national character/personality to host culture. |
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| individuals who assume the roles of cultural teachers: parents, family, community members, school/religious educators, peers |
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| microsystem (school, family), exosystem (neighbors, mass media), macrosystem (attitudes and ideologies of culture). chronosystem (time, sociohistoric conditions) |
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| type of associative learning (associated with consequences). reinforcement (+-) will increase behavior, punishment will decrease it |
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| learning culture satisfies basic survival needs, thus community reinforcement would be unnecessary. |
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| human observation is unique because of theory of mind (humans can understand the perspective of another). |
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| likely to be those with whom we have meaningful relations, are respected, carry out intentions, and are similar to us. |
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| emotionally-laden message |
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| easier stored in limbic system in LTM |
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| minimally counterintuitive message |
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| violate logic, yet exist in plausible events |
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