(CO611) Chapter 9- Terms

Question 1

identity

Answer 1

An inner sense of self that reflects a stable perception of who a person is individually and socially.

Question 2

ambivalent ethnic identification

Answer 2

An inner sense of group belonging in which positive ethnic experiences coexist alongside negative and rejecting ones, leading to a vacillation between positive and negative identification. Also referred to as internalized racism, internalized

Question 3

assimilation

Answer 3

A process whereby a previously distinct ethnic group merges socially into another group—usually a dominant or mainstream society. Forms of assimilation include acculturation, structural assimilation, marital assimilation, and identificational assimilation.

Question 4

acculturation

Answer 4

A form of assimilation wherein an ethnic group or individual takes on the cultural ways of another group (usually that of mainstream culture), often at the expense of traditional cultural ways.

Question 5

acculturative stress

Answer 5

Stress and emotional distress and, at times, trauma caused by acculturation.

Question 6

post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Answer 6

A mental disorder listed in the DSM-5 that involves an extreme internal reaction to a traumatic experience and includes symptoms of hyperarousal, intrusion of thoughts and memories, constriction of affect and other response systems, and social traumas.

Question 7

Hyperarousal

Answer 7

In association with trauma, the internal biology of self-preservation on permanent alert.

Question 8

Intrusion

Answer 8

When traumatized people relive the event as if it were recurring in the present.

Question 9

Constriction and numbing

Answer 9

In association with trauma for when an individual experiences a psychic deadening or dissociation from reality.

Question 10

Disconnection

Answer 10

In association with trauma, when an individual experiences a shattering of the self, its attachment to others, and the meaning of human experience.

Question 11

vicarious traumatization

Answer 11

Trauma caused by being in close emotional contact with a traumatized individual. Also known as secondary traumatization.

Question 12

machismo

Answer 12

A Spanish term in reference to the sense of responsibility a man feels to care for and protect his family and those around him.