Lesson 2: Acculturation and Mental Health

Question 1

Acculturation

Answer 1

The gradual process of adjusting and adapting into a culture other than one’s own; this involves two or more cultures merging so that both cultures engage in some adaptation

Question 2

Assimilation

Answer 2

This can be a rapid or more gradual change whereby one group takes on, or takes over, the language/culture/traditions of another group.

When one group is fully assimilated often times one cannot discern a native from a newcomer

Question 3

Immigrant

Answer 3

An individual that has come to a new country from another country

Being an immigrant is a natural outcome of population ecology.

Question 4

Population Ecology

Answer 4

Population ecology is a sub-field of ecology that deals with the dynamics of species populations and how these populations interact with the environment, such as birth and death rates, and by immigration and emigration

Question 5

Emigrant

Answer 5

A person who is leaving one country to relocate to another country

Question 6

Refugee

Answer 6

A person who has relocated to a new country due to some form or pressure or as a result of danger/stressors in their own home country

Question 7

Misconception

Answer 7

A Misconception is an incorrect idea or attitude, based on faulty understanding. Misconceptions are often wrought from stereotypes

Question 8

Stereotype

Answer 8

Stereotypes are overgeneralized understandings or ideas about groups of people; they serve to benefit our thinking by simplifying concepts, however because they simplify things, relevant differences among people can be overlooked.