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Multicultural implies celebrating diversity Cultural pluralism 1. multiculturalism 2. implies a certain group has special needs. culture conflict 1. when a person expieriences conflicting thoughts, feelings, etc.. about their culture 2. When persons of different culture live in the same geographical area Macroculture majority culture; dominant culture. cultural relativity a behavior cannot be assessed as good or bad except within the context of a given culture material culture (artifacts) paintings, books, tools nonmaterial culture customs, values, traditions, humor counterculture when a group of individuals strongly opposes the values of another culture Eugenics selective breeding can improve the gene pool proxemics relates to personal space, territory, interpersonal distance Tarasoff case (duty) duty to warn and intended victim of danger or violence Jensen tried to prove that African Americans were of lower IQ due to genetics Prognosis refers to the probable outcome of a case (recovery) Dollard/Miller Hypothesis Frustration leads to aggression deindividuation when individuals lose their identity Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory individuals try to reduce tension and discomfort from incongruent thoughts and beliefs (usually through denial) Mores (MOS) beliefs about the rightness or wrongness of behavior-braking these beliefs would cause harm folkways describe correct, normal, behavior and breaking these would causes embarrassment social distance scale evaluates how an individual feels towards other ethnic groups (Emory Bogardus) acculturation expecting a minority culture to integrate & adopt the customs of the dominant culture Assimilation when so much acculturation has occured that the minority individual is not a part of the dominant culture modal personality a personality most characteristic of the group in question therapeutic surrender client psychologically surrenders to counselor from a different culture & becomes more open-minded with feelings & thoughts flight-to-health client improved too rapidly for underlying issues to have been dealt with flight from reality client resorts to psychosis (loses touch w/reality) to avoid dealing with current life difficulties assimilation error perceiving someone elses' beliefs to be very much like that of your own. contrast error perceiving someone elses' dissimilar attitudes as even more different than they really are white privilege special advantages and privileges that non whites DON'T have monolithic seeing everyone n a given group as identical connotation emotional content oF a word as opposed to the dictionary definition semantic differential tendency for words to display different connotations alloplastic client can alter external factors autoplastic change comes from within personalism people must adjust to environmental and geological demands panacea cure-all palatable agreeable sleeper affect one remembers the message but forgets the communicator after a period of time