Terms Ch 5

Question 0

The incorporation of new ideas, objects, and experiences into framework of one’s thoughts

Answer 0

Assimilation

Question 1

Adapting to the beliefs, values, and practices of a new cultural setting

Answer 1

Acculturation

Question 2

A nurses act of adjusting his or her practices to meet a patients cultural beliefs, practices, needs, and preferences

Answer 2

Cultural competence

Question 3

Sets of signs and symptoms common in a limited number of cultures but virtually nonexistent in most other cultural groups

Answer 3

Culture bound syndromes

Question 4

Views the family as the basis for ones identity so that family interdependence and group decision making are the norm

Answer 4

Eastern tradition

Question 5

The process in which a cultures worldview beliefs values and practices are transmitted to its members

Answer 5

Enculturation

Question 6

The people and culture that have inhabited a country for thousands of years

Answer 6

Indigenous culture

Question 7

Describes economic and social standing in society

Answer 7

Minority status

Question 8

A field that focuses on how genes affect individual responses to medicines

Answer 8

Pharmacogenetics

Question 9

The expression of psychological stress through physical symptoms

Answer 9

Somatization

Question 10

A worldwide view In which ones identity is found in individuality which inspires the valuing of autonomy independence and self reliance

Answer 10

Western tradition

Question 11

A system for thinking about how the world works and how people should behave in it and in relationships with one another

Answer 11

Worldview