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07/22/2012

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True or false? Individuals from minority cultures tend to seek out counseling less and drop out sooner.
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True
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What is the division of the ACA that deals with multicultural counseling?
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Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD)
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Even though the term multicultural and cultural pluralism can be used as identical terms, what is another definition that cultural pluralism can imply in counseling?
Definition
It can imply that a certain group (women, disabled, senior citizens) have special needs that cross complex boundaries.
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What is 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
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When speaking of a behavior, what is it termed when a behavior cannot be assessed as good or bad except within the context of a given culture?
Definition
cultural relativity or cultural relativism
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In the US, each socioeconomic group represents a _____________.
Definition
separate culture
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______and _______ would say that regardless of culture, humans have an instinct to flight.
Definition
Freud
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What class of theorists believe that aggression is learned based on the belief that children will model agressive behavior they witness?
Definition
Social Learning Theorists
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Who wrote books on the seasons of a man's and a woman's life as well as the introduced the idea of a midlife crisis for men between the ages of 40-45?
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Daniel Levinson
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What are three factors that influence interpersonal attraction?
Definition

1. close proximity

2. physical attraction

3. similar beliefs

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What is proxemics?
Definition
The study of proximity or personal spacem interpersonal distance, and territoriality.
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What is propinquity?
Definition
The tendency for people who are in close proximity to be attracted to each other.
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True or false? Individuals from minority cultures tend to seek out counseling less and drop out sooner.
Definition
True
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What is the division of the ACA that deals with multicultural counseling?
Definition
Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD)
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What is the dominant culture or the culture that is accepted by the majority of citizens in a given society?
Definition
Macroculture or majority culture
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When speaking of a behavior, what is it termed when a behavior cannot be assessed as good or bad except within the context of a given culture?
Definition
cultural relativity or cultural relativism
Term
In the US, each socioeconomic group represents a _____________.
Definition
separate culture
Term
______and _______ would say that regardless of culture, humans have an instinct to flight.
Definition
Freud
Term
What class of theorists believe that aggression is learned based on the belief that children will model agressive behavior they witness?
Definition
Social Learning Theorists
Term
Who wrote books on the seasons of a man's and a woman's life as well as the introduced the idea of a midlife crisis for men between the ages of 40-45?
Definition
Daniel Levinson
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What is proxemics?
Definition
The study of proximity or personal spacem interpersonal distance, and territoriality.
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What is propinquity?
Definition
The tendency for people who are in close proximity to be attracted to each other.
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What helped to abet the multicultural counseling movement?
Definition
Civil Rights Movement
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True or false? In all cases, an identified DSM-IV diagnosis implies and recommends a treatment process.
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FALSE!! The DSM-IV is for diagnostic purposes only.
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What does some research suggest correlates highly with poor economic conditions?
Definition
aggression
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What does research show regarding a client's preference of counselor? (think culturally)
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Client's usually prefer a counselor of the same race and similar cultural background.
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What two individuals are associated with the frustration-aggression theory?
Definition

John Dollard and Neal Miller

This hypothesis asserts that frustration leads to aggression.

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What constitutes the #1 method of committing suicide in the US?
Definition
death by self inflicted gunshot wound
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Who developed the popular balance theory known as cognitive dissonance theory and what is the core belief behind it?
Definition
Leon Festinger
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What is the term used to describe the set of rules, procedures, ideas, and values shared by members of a society?
Definition
culture
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What is the difference between a statistical norm and a cultural norm?
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A statistical norm is how individuals ACTUALLY act while a cultural norm is how a person is EXPECTED to act.
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What are beliefs regarding the rightness or wrongness of behavior?
Definition
mores
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What is the difference between mores and folkways?
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Flokways are similar to mores in that they describe correct, normal, or habitual behavior in a culture. Breaking a folkway usually only results in embarassment. Violating cultural mores causes harm to others or threatens the existence of a group.
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Who was the first pioneer to heavily focus on sociocultural issues?
Definition
Frank Parsons-- the Father of Guidance
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Are biological similarities and sameness indicated by ecological or universal culture?
Definition
Universal culture--as proven by the HUman Genome Project that we are all more alike than we are different.
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True or False? Early vocalizations is nearly identical in all cultures around the globe.
Definition
TRUE--the initial sounds made by babies all over the world are very similar.
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What did the social distance scale developed by Emory Bogardus in the 1920's evaluate?
Definition
how an individual felt toward other ethnic groups
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Describe the foot-in-the-door technique in relation to counseling.
Definition
When a client complies with a less repugnant request (step 1), they will be more likely to comply with one that they deem more repugnant (step 2)
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Whose studies support the foot-in-the-door principle?
Definition

Freedman and Fraser

HINT:  think "f" for foot, Freedman, and Fraser

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The fact that most countries have an official language, stated viewpoint, and central government is reflected mainly by what?
Definition
national culture
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How does a culture differ from a society?
Definition
A culture is defined by norms and values while a society is a self-perpetuating group that occupies a definitive territory.
Term

True or False?

Cultures operate within societies

Definition
TRUE!
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What is the term for when someone use's his or her own culture as a yardstick to measure all others?
Definition
ethnocentrism
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What does acculturation mean?
Definition
Ethnic and racial minorities intergrate or adopt cultural beliefs and customs from the majority or dominant culture.
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How is acculturation related to assimilation?
Definition
Assimilation occurs when an individual has such a high level of acculturation that he or she becomes a part of the dominant culture.
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What is a modal personality?
Definition
The personality which is characterstic or typical of the group in question
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What theory supports the belief that a relationship will endure if the rewards are greater than the costs?
Definition
Social Exchange Theory
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When working with the geriatric population, what are the best predictors of retirement adjustment?
Definition
financial security and health
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What are two myths about older adults that counselors need to be aware of when working with the geriatric population?
Definition

Myth 1: Intelligence declines with old age.

Myth 2: The elderly are incapable of sex.

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Even though an automatic decline in intelligence with aging is a myth, the theory of "terminal drop" or "terminal decline" supports there is a dramatic decrease in intellectual functioning usually during the last _______ of life.
Definition
5 years
Term
________________theory predicts that a person will look for things which are consistent with his or her behavior to justify it in his or her mind.
Definition
Cognitve Dissonance Theory
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Why would a middle to upper class citizen in the US want a counselor to help them "work it out on their own"?
Definition
In the US, middle and upper class culture teaches that independence is a virtue.
Term
What theoretical mode of counseling has been used more than other models to help promote understanding between cultures and races?
Definition
Rogerian Person-centered Counseling
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In intercultural/multicultural counseling, what does therapeutic surrender mean?
Definition
A client will psychologically surrender to a counselor from a different culture and become open with thoughts and feelings
Term
What are 5 factors that help promote therapeutic surrender?
Definition

1. rapport

2. trust

3. self disclosure

4. listening

5. conquering client resistance

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What does the assimilation-contrast theory support?
Definition
-That a client will perceive a counselor's statement that is somewhat like his or her to be more similar and one that is dissimilar to be more dissimilar.
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What is White Privilege?
Definition
A term used to focus on the special advantages, privileges, and opportunities that nonwhites do not have.  This can sometimes come into the conuseling session as transference.
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What does having a monolithic perspective mean?
Definition
A counselor perceives all individuals from a given group as the same.  BAD< BAD< BAD!!!
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TRUE OR FALSE? Clients who have counselors of the same ethnicity tend to stay in counseling longer.
Definition
TRUE
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What does structure mean in regards to multicultural counseling?
Definition
A counselor will explain the role of the helper as well as the helpee to ward off embarassment and enhance the effectiveness.  (similar to informed consent)
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What are the 3 major barriers to intercultural counseling?
Definition

1. Culture-bound values

2. class-bound values

3. language differences

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What term is used to describe a viewpoint that is a "culture specific" perspective and comes from the word phonemic?
Definition
emic
Term
What is the difference between an emic viewpoint and etic viewpoint?
Definition
An emic viewpoint emphasizes that each individual has individual differences. An etic viewpoint adheres to the thoery that humans are humans regardless of background and culture--in other words, all techniques and interventions can be applied consistently across the board.
Term
What is the diference between autoplastic and alloplastic viewpoints in multicultural counseling?
Definition

An autoplastic view feels change comes from within. Alloplastic views assert that a client can cope best by changing external or environmental factors.

This is how I remember the difference: A plane on autopilot is controlled from within--so autoplastic means changes from within. 

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A little riddle for you:)

 

Positive transference is to love as negative transference is to hostility as ____________ transference is to uncertainty?

Definition
Ambivalent
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In multicultural counseling, when does ambivalent transference occur?
Definition
When the client rapidly shifts a emotional attitude toward the counselor based on learning and experiences related to authority figures from the past.
Term
What is the term that means all people must adjust to environmental and geological demands?
Definition
personalism
Term
Who created the concept of social facilitation and what does this theory claim?
Definition
F.H. Allport
Term
What is the term used in social psychology to describe the phenomenon that after a period of time, one forgets the messenger, but remembers the message?
Definition
The Sleeper Effect
Term
What noted psychologist is associated with obedience and authority?
Definition
Stanley Milgrim
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In what group is the tendency to affiliate with others the greatest? (think birth order and number of children)
Definition
First borns and only children
Term
What category of conflict is an individual presented with two equally attractive choices?
Definition
approach-approach conflict
Term
What category of conflict is when a person is present with two negative alternatives as choices?
Definition
avoidance-avoidance conflict
Term
When a client is presented with a situation where there is a positive and negative factor presented by the same thing, what type of conflict is that?
Definition
approach-avoidance conflict
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Who developed the congruity theory and what does it suggest?
Definition
Charles Osgood and Percey Tannenbaum
Term
What did the study conducted by Muzafer Sherif discover?
Definition

A cooperative goal can bring two hostile groups together and reduce competition and enhance cooperation.

 

**Known as the Robber's Cave Experiment

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Why are researchers in the field of counseling critical of most psychosocial experiments?
Definition
Situations are often artificial (laboratory) and lack external validity or ability to understand the behavior outside the experimental setting.
Term
With cultural aspects in mind, what kind of therapy are Asian Americans likely to respond best to?
Definition
brief solution focused therapy that is directive and structured.
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