Chp18-P674-End

Question 1

Culture shock

Answer 1

The stressful experience of encountering another culture.

Question 2

U-shaped hypothesis

Answer 2

The idea that acculturation starts with positive experiences, proceeds to negative and then returns to being positive over a course of time.

Question 3

Culture learning

Answer 3

Acquiring an understanding of, and an ability to share in, the rules and conventions of a culture.

Question 4

Multicultural?

Answer 4

The existence of features of more than one culture in a group or an activity.

Question 5

Multiculturalism

Answer 5

The set of social and political policies that maintain a multicultural society.

Question 6

Cultural distance

Answer 6

The degree of similarity of values, attitudes, customs and practices between people of different cultures.

Question 7

Racism

Answer 7

A form of discrimination based on the actual or perceived race of another person or group.

Question 8

Racial socialisation

Answer 8

The process of educating and training people about the nature and consequences of racism.

Question 9

Indigenous

Answer 9

People of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islands descent.

Question 10

Aboriginal people

Answer 10

Those people descended from the pre-colonial inhabitants of mainland Australia.

Question 11

Community psychology

Answer 11

A discipline of psychology that studies the relationship of individuals to the wider society.

Question 12

The Dreaming

Answer 12

An indigenous world view that supplies the framework for understanding and interpreting the world.