Social & Cultural Diversity Flashcards
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America has been called the most diverse country on the face of our planet. Counseling a client from a different social and/or cultural background is known as _______.
A. cross-cultural counseling.
B. multicultural counseling
C. intercultural counseling
D. all of the above.
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D. all of the above.
________ implies that we champion the idea of celebrating diversity and this can be age, sexual orientation, religion, social class, country of origin, race, and even health status.
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Multicultural
________ suggests that a minority cultural group will keep their own unique cultural values, yet they still participate in the wider or dominant culture.
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Cultural Pluralism
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Culture refers to _________.
A. customs shared by a group which distinguish it from other groups.
B. values shared by a group that are learned from others in the group.
C. attitudes, beliefs, art, and language which characterize members of a group often passed from generation to generation.
D. all of the above.
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D. all of the above.
________ refers to the dominant culture or the culture that is accepted by the majority of citizens in a given society.
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Macroculture or Majority culture
_______ refers to the fact that some individuals have an unearned advantage, giving that person dominance, access to resources, and therefore power. Ideally, this power should be shared with others who don’t have it rather than discriminating against those who do not.
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Privilege
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Our culture is more diverse than in the past. Multicultural counselors often work with persons who are culturally different. This means the client ________.
A. is culturally biased.
B. suffers from the diagnosis of cultural relativity
C. belongs to a different culture from the helper.
D. presents problems which deal only with culturally charged issues.
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C. belongs to a different culture from the helper.
_________ connotes that a behavior cannot be assessed as good or bad except within the context of a given culture. The behavior must be evaluated relative to the culture.
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Cultural relativity
The _________ counselor must assess the client’s behavior based on the client’s own culture - not merely based on the counselor’s culture. The meaning or desirability of a given behavior, trait, or act is based on the culture.
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Multicultural
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In order to diagnose clients from a different culture _________.
A. the counselor ideally will need some information regarding the specifics of the culture.
B. the counselor will find the DSM useless.
C. the counselor should rely heavily on cultural epoch theory.
D. NBCC ethics prohibit the use of DSM diagnosis.
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A. the counselor ideally will need some information regarding the specifics of the culture.
_______ culture = books, paintings, homes, artifacts, and tools
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Material culture
_______ culture = customs, values, humor, social ideas, traditions
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Nonmaterial culture
_______ = when the counselor understands a client’s cultural factors
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Cultural awareness
___________ = suggests that all cultures - like children - pass through the same stages of development in terms of evolving and maturing. However, recently, multicultural experts have come to believe that this is not a valid notion.
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Culture Epoch Theory
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In the United States, each socioeconomic group represents ________.
A. a separate race
B. a separate culture
C. the concept of color blindness
D. a separate national culture
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B. a separate culture
_____ = based on genetic origin. Refers to the identification of individuals via distinct physical or bodily characteristics such as skin color or facial features.
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race
106
Which therapist was not instrumental in the early years of the social psychology movement?
A. Freud
B. Durkheim
C. McDougall
D. Berne
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D. Berne
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______ and ______ would say that regardless of culture, humans have an instinct to fight.
A. Maslow; Rogers
B. Ellis; Harper
C. Freud; Lorenz
D. Glasser; Rogers
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C. Freud; Lorenz
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_______ believe that aggression is learned. Thus, a child who witnesses aggressive behavior in adults may imitate the aggressive behavior.
A. instinct theorists
B. innate aggression theorists
C. social learning theorists
D. followers of Erik Erikson
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C. social learning theorists
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The APGA, which became the AACD until 1992 and is now the ACA, contributed to the growth of cross-cultural counseling by _________.
A. the 1972 formation of the Association for Non-White Concerns in Personnel and Guidance, later known as the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development.
B. the 1972 ethic which made it unethical to see culturally different clients without three hours of relevant graduate work in this area.
C. the 1972 ethic which required a 3,000-hour practicum in order to work with culturally different clients.
D. urging nonwhites to take graduate counseling courses.
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A. the 1972 formation of the Association for Non-White Concerns in Personnel and Guidance, later known as the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development.
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Daniel Levinson proposed a controversial stage-crisis view theory with several major life transitions. He ________.
A. is the father of multicultural counseling.
B. wrote the 1978 classic “Seasons of a Man’s Life” and the 1997 sequel “Seasons of a Woman’s Life”.
C. postulated a midlife crisis for men between ages 40 and 45 and for women approximately 5 years earlier.
D. b & c
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D. b & c
________’s theory is now viewed as biased against women since it does not truly deal adequately with women’s development proposing that women receive fulfillment by meeting the needs of their husbands and families.
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Levinson’s
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The three factors which enhance interpersonal attraction are:
A. assertiveness, anxiety, ego strength.
B. close proximity, physical attraction, similar beliefs.
C. culture, race, assertiveness.
D. ego strength, anxiety, race.
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B. close proximity, physical attraction, similar beliefs.
_______, or the study of proximity, relates to personal space, interpersonal distance, and territoriality.
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Proxemics
Social psychologists refer to the tendency for people who are in close proximity (say working at the same office or living close) to be attracted to each other as ________.
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Propinquity
_______ of attraction of liking suggests we are attracted to people who like us and find us attractive. For long-term relationships, the matching hypothesis asserts we very often pick a partner who roughly matches our level of attractiveness.
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Reciprocity
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The term contextualism implies that ________.
A. multicultural counseling is the oldest subspecialty in the profession.
B. behavior must be assessed in the context of the culture in which the behavior occurs.
C. the notion of worldview is highly inaccurate.
D. projective tests are more accurate than objective measures when performing cross-cultural counseling.
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B. behavior must be assessed in the context of the culture in which the behavior occurs.
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Carol Gilligan, although she was an assistant to Lawrence Kohlberg, was critical of his theory of moral development ________.
A. as she felt it was too psychoanalytic
B. as she felt it was too behavioristic
C. as she felt it was not applicable to African Americans.
D. as she felt it was more applicable to males than females.
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D. as she felt it was more applicable to males than females.
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________ helped to popularize the multicultural counseling movement.
A. Arthur Jensen’s views on IQ testing (also known as Jensenism).
B. The civil right movement
C. Jung’s feeling that all men and women from all cultures possess a collective unconscious.
D. The Tarasoff duty
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B. The civil right movement
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When a counselor speaks of a probable outcome in a case, he or she is technically referring to ________.
A. the prognosis
B. the diagnosis
C. the intervention
D. attending behavior
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A. the prognosis
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When a counselor speaks of what he or she believes must transpire from a psychotherapeutic standpoint, he or she technically is referring to ________.
A. recommendations
B. the diagnosis
C. the prognosis
D. the notion of transference
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A. recommendations
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The 1971 famous Stanford Prison experiment conducted by Philip Zimbardo demonstrated that ________.
A. passivity is the norm for most individuals
B. assertive behavior is clearly the healthiest behavioral alternative
C. it takes people several weeks to change their behavior
D. people conform to social roles
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D. people conform to social roles
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A wealth of research demonstrates that _______.
A. surprisingly enough, African Americans generally request Asian Americans counselors.
B. surprisingly enough, Asian Americans generally request African American counselors.
C. in most instances, clients prefer a counselor of the same race and a similar cultural background.
D. in most instances, clients prefer a counselor of the same race, yet a different culture.
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C. in most instances, clients prefer a counselor of the same race and a similar cultural background.
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The frustration-aggression theory is associated with _______.
A. Albert Ellis
B. Robert Havinghurst, who created the idea of the developmental task concept.
C. Eric Berne, the creator of transactional analysis (TA).
D. John Dollard and Neal Miller.
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D. John Dollard and Neal Miller.
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A popular cognitive consistency or balance theory in social psychology is _______ cognitive dissonance theory.
A. Dollard & Miller’s
B. Crites & Roe’s
C. Festinger’s
D. Holland & Super’s
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C. Festinger’s
The concept of ______ theory suggests that people strive for consistency/balance in terms of their belief systems. Simply put, individuals attempt to reduce or eliminate inconsistent or incompatible actions and beliefs.
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Balance theory
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Culture is really a set of rules, procedures, ideas, and values shared by members of a society. Culture is said to be normative. This implies that ________.
A. one culture will have norms which differ only slightly from another
B. culture excludes customs
C. culture provides individuals with standards of conduct
D. culture is never socially learned
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C. culture provides individuals with standards of conduct
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A statistical norm measures actual conduct, while a cultural norm _______.
A. describes how people are supposed to act
B. has little to do with expectations
C. is irrelevant when counseling a client
D. all of the above
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A. describes how people are supposed to act
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Mores are beliefs and social customs ________.
A. regarding the rightness or wrongness of behavior
B. which should be the central focus in multicultural counseling
C. that are conscious decisions made by persons in power
D. that are identical with the folkways in the culture
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A. regarding the rightness or wrongness of behavior
_______ = people are generally punished for violating this.
_______ = if violated, the individual will be looked down upon (not as serious)
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Mores
Folkways
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_______ was the first pioneer to focus heavily on sociocultural issues.
A. Mark Savickas, a major figure in career construction theory relying on narrative therapy
B. Alfred Adler, the father of individual psychology
C. Maxie Maultsby, the father of rational behavior therapy
D. Frank Parsons, the father of guidance
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D. Frank Parsons, the father of guidance
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A counselor who is part of a research study will be counseling clients in the polar regions and then at a point near the equator. Her primary concern will be _______.
A. universal culture
B. national culture
C. ecological culture
D. b &. c
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D. b &. c
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Biological similarities and sameness are indicated by ________.
A. ecological culture
B. mores
C. regional and national culture
D. universal culture
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D. universal culture
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Early vocalization in infants _______.
A. is more complex in African American babies
B. is more complex in white babies
C. is nearly identical in all cultures around the globe
D. is the finest indicator of elementary school performance
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C. is nearly identical in all cultures around the globe
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In the 1920s, Emory Bogardus developed a social distance scale, which evaluated ________.
A. socioeconomic trends
B. how an individual felt toward other ethnic groups
C. disadvantaged youth
D. language barriers between African Americans and Asian Americans
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B. how an individual felt toward other ethnic groups
Wanting to keep a social distance from a certain group of people is seen as a form of ________.
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Prejudice
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According to the foot-in-the-door compliance technique, which has two distinct steps, a counselor who needs to make a home visit to a resistant client’s home _______.
A. should conduct the interview from the porch
B. should double-bind the client
C. should ask to come in the home
D. should exude accurate empathy, but never ask to enter the home
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C. should ask to come in the home
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Most countries have an official language, a stated viewpoint, and a central government. This is reflected mainly by ________.
A. national culture
B. human culture
C. regional culture
D. ecological culture
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A. national culture
The term _________ has been used to describe children raised primarily in a culture that is different than their parents’ culture during their formative years.
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third culture kid (TCK)
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Whereas a culture is defined primarily via norms and values, a society differs from a culture in that a society _______.
A. is defined as a set of mores
B. has a distinct lack of norms
C. is a self-perpetuating independent group which occupies a definitive territory
D. none of the above
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C. is a self-perpetuating independent group which occupies a definitive territory
_______ operates within _______; however, all members of a given society may not share the same culture.
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Cultures; societies
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Ethnocentrism __________.
A. uses one’s own culture as a yardstick to measure all others
B. means race
C. is a genetic term
D. all of the above
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A. uses one’s own culture as a yardstick to measure all others
______ conveys the notion that one’s own group is superior to others.
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Ethnocentrism
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All of these statements are ethnocentric EXCEPT ________.
A. you can’t trust anyone over the age of 40
B. Americans are generous
C. blue-collar workers are mean and selfish
D. the Gross Domestic Product in the U.S. exceeds the figure in Mexico
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D. the Gross Domestic Product in the U.S. exceeds the figure in Mexico
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Ethnocentrism ________.
A. is not universal
B. promotes a sense of patriotism and national sovereignty
C. promotes stability and pride, yet danger in the nuclear age
D. b & c
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D. b & c
_______ suggests that ethnic and racial minorities integrate or adopt cultural beliefs and customs from the majority or dominant culture.
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Acculturation