PSYCB Chapter 15

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Across
  1. 1. Emphasises the autonomy of the individual.
  2. 6. The individual actively engages in learning about their ethnicity, resulting in deeper understanding.
  3. 9. White guilt; a belief that racism is only perpetrated by ‘bad whites’.
  4. 13. A culture that has weak social norms and a high tolerance of deviant behaviour.
  5. 14. The belief that, in comparison to a reference group, one is getting less than is deserved.
  6. 15. Seeking to understand the subjective experience of people in particular cultural contexts (cultural researcher).
  7. 18. The taking of cultural artefacts or intellectual property.
  8. 19. A culture that has strong social norms and a low tolerance of deviant behaviour.
  9. 20. Extent to which common characteristics of the stereotype of males as providers, competitors and strong dominate the more ‘feminine’ characteristics, such as nurturing, caring and providing.
  10. 22. Ideas that suggest particular groups of people possess inherent characteristics, behaviours, beliefs or attitudes that make them either superior or inferior to other groups.
  11. 23. The individual has not given much thought to their ethnic identity; they may identify with the dominant culture.
  12. 25. Seeking to understand by examining the culture as an outsider looking in (cross-cultural researcher).
  13. 29. How much people are prepared to bear differences in wealth and power.
  14. 31. You can only understand human behaviour within a cultural context and therefore you cannot compare cultural groups.
  15. 32. A false assumption that all members of some group share the same characteristics,
  16. 33. ‘Whiteness’ is acknowledged; awareness of racial moral dilemmas.
  17. 37. The process of the transmission of culture, learning about your heritage and who you belong to.
  18. 38. Refers to mainstream psychological understandings that have been dominated by the thoughts, actions and behaviour of people who are from Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic countries.
  19. 41. Extent to which a culture values a long- versus short-term view of the future.
  20. 42. A set of shared meanings and ideas that are transmitted across generations – including artefacts such as symbols, art, dance and language – and values that guide the ways in which we think and feel about ourselves and those we interact with. It helps us to orient ourselves towards an increasingly complex world.
Down
  1. 2. A search to define and abandon personal racism and define a non-racist white identity.
  2. 3. The assumption that all psychological phenomena are the same in all cultures.
  3. 4. The individual has made a commitment to, and resolved, their ethnic identity, and reached stability.
  4. 5. The idea that we interpret the world and all that occurs around us through the lens of our own ethnic or cultural origins.
  5. 7. The process of learning and understanding the values and norms of the culture you live in.
  6. 8. Suggests three stages are involved in ethnic identity development.
  7. 10. A clash between what you are familiar with from your country of origin and a new country.
  8. 11. Getting to know and understand other cultures to the point that the cultures in contact change.
  9. 12. A model of ethnic identity development that describes six stages of development.
  10. 16. The part of a person’s identity associated with the racial, religious or cultural group to which the person belongs.
  11. 17. Displaced anger and hostility towards people of colour.
  12. 21. A set of features or characteristics that are shared by a specific group
  13. 24. Emphasises the interrelatedness of all members of society and their collective endeavours.
  14. 26. Ways in which people and groups cope with or tolerate uncertainty.
  15. 27. The idea that stereotypes and prejudice towards a group will diminish as contact with the group increases.
  16. 28. Comparing and contrasting cultural dimensions.
  17. 30. Naiveté concerning the importance of race; being ‘colour blind’ or unaware of racial group membership.
  18. 34. How people understand and make sense of their own culture from within.
  19. 35. Culture can affect how we may display constructs, but inherently our basic psychological processes are the same across everyone; universalism tries to understand the role of culture through comparisons.
  20. 36. A positive or negative attitude towards an entire group of people.
  21. 39. Differential treatment of various groups; the behavioural component of prejudice.
  22. 40. Racial humanism; internally defined non-racist identity and valuing of racial diversity.