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Chapter 1: Introducing Community Psychology Flashcards

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True or false, community psychologists are interested in effective ways to prevent problems rather than treat them after they arise

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True

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True or false, the field of community psychology emphasizes promoting healthy functioning for all members of a community rather than when problems arise for few individuals

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True

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What is problem definition?

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When we automatically try to define a problem and understand it

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True or false, our cultural background, personal experiences, education, and biases help shape our assumptions

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True

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What do prevention or promotion programs do?

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Reduce the likelihood of something occurring

Reduce risk factors
Strengthening protective factors

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What do consultations do?

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Focuses on roles, decision making, and communication in organizations to promote job satisfaction, schools, or social change organizations

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When do alternative settings arise?

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When traditional services do not meet the needs of some populations

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What does community organizing do?

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Helps citizens organize to identify local issues and decide how to address them

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What do community coalitions do?

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Bring citizens close together to address a community problem together instead of with separate efforts

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What is a context minimization error?

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To denote ignoring or discounting the importance of contexts in an individual’s life

Eg. Family, friendship, network, etc

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What are the 13 contexts someone could have?

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Friends, family, networking, gender roles, economic forces, peer group, neighbourhood, workplace, school, religious organization, locality, cultural heritage, and norms.

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What does context minimization do to data?

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It leads to flawed data or research findings that hold true only in limited circumstances, OR they can lead to programs that fail because they attempt to change things when they don’t understand the contexts in which people live

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What is a fundamental attribution error?

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The tendency of observers to overestimate the importance of the actors individual characteristics and underestimate the importance of social factors

Eg. Someone tripping “must be drunk” when we don’t look at the sidewalk to see if it’s fucked up

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True or false, context minimization is similar to attribution errors but context minimization refers to contexts and forces outside the immediate situation

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True

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True or false, contexts influence our lives at least as much as individual characteristics do

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True

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True or false, community psychologists seek to understand people within the social contexts of their lives and to change contexts in order to promote quality of life for persons

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True

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True or false, contexts affect personal life, while persons, especially when acting together with others, influence and change contexts

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True

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True or false, Riger called for community psychology to appreciate how people respond to contexts and how they can exercise power to change those contexts

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True

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Give an example of how people influence context

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Citizens fight for improved police coverage, speed bumps

20
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What is the exact definition of community psychology?

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Community psychology concerns the relationships of individuals with communities and societies. By integrating research with action, it seeks to understand and enhance quality of life for individuals, communities, and societies

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What are community psychology’s core values?

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Individual and family wellness, sense of community, respect for human diversity, social justice, empowerment, collaboration, empirical grounding

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True or false, community psychology is not about the individual or the community alone, but on their linkages

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True

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What is a participant conceptualizer?

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A community psychologist, someone who is actively involved in community processes while also attempting to understand and explain them

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What is the difference between first order change and second order change?

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First order: alters, rearranges, or replaces individual members of a group. Eg. Firing Heather, there will always be a lazy employee
Second order: changing relationships, shared goals etc, like instead of having Vic make all the decisions, having everyone make decisions together

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What two ways is community psych different from other fields of psychology?

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  1. Shift perspective from individual to community behaviour

2. Expansion of what is appropriate to study

26
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Identify 3 localities that an individual may be a part of

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Neighbourhoods
Cities
Towns
Rural areas

27
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Identify 2 mediating structures

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Barber shops or schools

Places where people can learn to cope with life’s stresses

28
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What are the 7 core values in community psychology?

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Individual and fam wellness
Sense of community 
Respect for human diversity 
Social justice 
Empowerment and citizen participation 
Collaboration and community strengths 
Empirical grounding
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What is distributive Justice?

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The allocation of resources among members of a population

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What is procedural Justice?

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Whether processes of collective decision making concerns the outcomes of a program of social policy

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True or false, community psych concerns the relationships of individuals with communities and societies

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True

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True or false, by integrating research with action, community psychology seeks to understand and enhance the quality of life for individuals

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True

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What is the “shift” in perspective?

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Shifting from ‘THE INDIV” to to the “INDIV IN A WEB OF CONTEXTS” (environments and social connections)

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What is context minimization error?

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Discounting the influence of social contexts on an individual

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What is first-order change?

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Alters or replaces indiv members of a group of community

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What is second order change?

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Alters the role relationships among members of a group or community

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True or false, community psychology is the psych...
Of community 
For community 
With community 
In community
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True

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True or false, often, community psych focuses on the marginalized

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TRUE

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True or false, the ‘shifting’ of perspectives means a move from the individual to the structural perspective

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True

40
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Identify some reasons why you should study community psych

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Recognizing structural perspectives
Identifying own values
Building communities
Critical perspectives

41
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What is the Rosetta effect?

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When community makes a difference in health

Eg. Sense of community, cooking together, visiting eachother etc

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