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1
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Relying on the verbal portions of a message is typical of __________ cultural groups.

  • High context
  • Low context
  • Integrated
  • Colonized
A

Low context

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Providing respect and recognition for various subcultures within a society is a feature of

  • The melting pot
  • Cultural pluralism
  • Biculturalism
  • Affirmative action
A

Cultural pluralism

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The idea that cultural differences are due mainly to the absence of economic opportunities is an example of

  • A cultural deficit model
  • A personal deficit model
  • A cultural pluralism model
  • A cultural integration model
A

A cultural deficit model

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When a counselor from a professional middle class background finds it difficult to relate to a homeless client, the problem can be described as

  • Discrimination
  • Minority identity development
  • Cultural encapsulation
  • Biculturalism
A

Discrimination

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5
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Gender identity disorder is a diagnosis that refers to:

  • Attraction to members of the same gender
  • Underdeveloped gender identity
  • Encapsulation in narrow gender-centered syndromes
  • The belief that one’s gender is wrong
A

The belief that one’s gender is wrong

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Freud is argued to have influenced the treatment of women in therapy by his emphasis on

  • The development of men and later extending it to include women
  • Focusing treatment mainly on women’s issues
  • Ignoring differences between men and women
  • Exaggerating differences between men and women.
A

The development of men and later extending it to include women

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Cultural privilege refers to:

  • Earned cultural advantages on the basis of group membership
  • Unearned cultural advantages on the basis of group membership
  • Specific aspects of cultural superiority
  • The effects of affirmative action policies
A

Unearned cultural advantages on the basis of group membership

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The perspective on life through which people organize their values, beliefs, and their ways of speaking is called

  • A stereotype
  • A subcultural lifestyle
  • A worldview
  • A discourse
A

A worldview

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Racism is best described as:

  • Favoring one’s own ethnic group members
  • A personality disorder
  • A belief in the superiority of one race
  • The result of an authoritarian culture
A

A belief in the superiority of one race

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Brown versus Board of Education was a landmark court case that revolved around the issue of

  • Access to previously segregated schools
  • Access to university for black students
  • The busing of students from poor neighborhoods to schools in wealthier neighborhoods
  • Breaches of the affirmative action law in schools
A

Access to previously segregated schools

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Using a universal approach to counseling regardless of the client’s race, creed or gender might be called:

  • Value neutral counseling
  • Equal opportunity counseling
  • Affirmative action counseling
  • Lacking understanding of cultural values
A

Lacking understanding of cultural values

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The process of learning to adopt the cultural practices of another culture is called

  • Acculturation
  • Cultural encapsulation
  • Minority identity development
  • Biculturalism
A

Acculturation

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Cultural identity development is affected by:

  • Random encounters
  • Cultural encapsulation
  • Social movements
  • Peer pressure
A

Social movements

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When a counselor asks a client about prejudicial attitudes towards ethnic minorities, he responds that he doesn’t really care about being prejudiced. In fact prejudicial attitudes “make those people easier to understand.” This statement reflects which of the following explanations for prejudice?

  • Social learning
  • Information processing
  • Social conflict
  • Authoritarian personality
A

Information processing

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A client needs to take gradually increasing doses of valium for stress management. The counselor reasons that the need for more valium is __________?

  • Tolerance
  • Addiction
  • Psychological dependence
  • Physical dependence
A

Tolerance

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When a social group shares patterns of behavior and social norms they are called:

  • Peer group
  • Social class
  • Culture
  • Society
A

Culture

17
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The process a person goes through to acquire social and occupational roles is called

  • Personalization
  • Encapsulation
  • Maturation
  • Socialization
A

Socialization

18
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A client who believes in the superiority of one cultural group over another is exhibiting

  • Relativism
  • Racism
  • Segregation
  • Pluralism
A

Racism

19
Q

The melting pot theory stresses the amalgamation of cultural groups but the __________ theory stresses cultural groups holding onto their uniqueness while coexisting effectively

  • Separate but equal segregation
  • Checkerboard
  • Salad bowl
  • Garden
A

Salad bowl

20
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Approaches to counseling that focus primarily on ________ aspects of the individual’s functioning are ineffective with many minority group members.

  • Intrapsychic
  • Humanistic
  • Systemic
  • Holistic
A

Intrapsychic

21
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In multicultural counseling, the counselor should assess the extent to which the client:

  • Is aware of cultural differences
  • Respects the counselor’s culture
  • Is full of stereoptypical views
  • Is culturally bound
A

Is culturally bound

22
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The minority group growing numerically at the fastest rate in American is:

  • African-Americans
  • Asian Americans
  • Hispanic Americans
  • Native Americans
A

Hispanic Americans

23
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The process by which minority groups take on the ways of the dominant culture is called:

  • Integration
  • Assimilation
  • Immigration
  • Encapsulation
A

Assimilation

24
Q

If you compare African American males with African American females, the males have:

  • Higher rates of employment but lower average pay
  • Lower rates of employment and lower rates of pay
  • About the same rates of employment but lower average pay
  • Higher rates of unemployment
A

Higher rates of unemployment

25
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An approach to counseling that is culture-centered and stresses understanding the culture from within is called

  • Emic
  • Etic
  • Systemic
  • Encapsulated
A

Emic

26
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If a counselor attends to a member of a cultural group by noticing their culturally patterned tone, loudness of speaking, inflections and rate of speaking, he or she is attending to

  • Proxemics
  • Paralinguistic features
  • Kinesics
  • Discourse
A

Paralinguistic features

27
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The belief that the individual takes precedence over group belonging and that people should be treated on individual basis is called

  • Meritocracy
  • Cultural embeddedness
  • Cultural relativity
  • Racism
A

Meritocracy

(This is the blackboard answer. However a Meritocracy is where people are valued based only on their abilities)

28
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People generally form their opinions of individuals that they do not know very well in the basis of

  • Identification
  • Projection
  • Observed behaviors
  • Stereotypes
A

Stereotypes

29
Q

In Adorno’s theory of racist personality structures, those who were most likely to be racist had a personality that featured:

  • Introversion
  • Authoritarianism
  • Relativism
  • Cognitive dissonance
A

Authoritarianism

30
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In the theory of cultural identity development which of the following is likely to PRECEDE angry rejection of aspects of the dominant culture

  • The effort to assimilate
  • Integration of chosen aspects of both minority and dominant cultures
  • Experiences of cultural recognition
  • Depression
A

The effort to assimilate

31
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Efforts to reduce the incidence of spouse abuse have struggled to overcome a major assumption that is shared by many males and females. It is that

  • What happens in the home is a private family matter
  • Women usually provoke their husbands to hit them
  • It’s one person’s word against another
  • Spouse abuse occurs mainly among people of lower socio-economic status
A

What happens in the home is a private family matter

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In Hispanic American families role conflict may be experienced if:

  • The male is employed and the female is unemployed
  • The child is required to translate into Spanish for her parents
  • The wife believes in sex-role equality
  • The male is unemployed and the female is employed
A

The male is unemployed and the female is employed

33
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Which of the following may be expected in a Native American client with regard to time orientation?

  • Stress on the importance of punctuality
  • Long-term planning is regarded as egotistical
  • Life should be lived with a view to the past
  • Things should get done according to deadlines
A

Long-term planning is regarded as egotistical

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