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Multicultural Psychology
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- Examines the effects of culture on how people, think, feel and behave
- Assumption is that psychological processes are shaped by experience, background, environment, values and social group memberships.
- 4th force
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Culture
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Socially transmitted (from one person to the other) patterns, arts, beliefs, and all other products of human work and thought
3
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Worldview
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- What I think is normal
- Overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world
- A collection of views held by an individual or group.
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What is meant by psychology is WEIRD?
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- It means that most research makes sense in and originate in WEIRD societies
- W: western
- E: educated
- I: Industrialized
- R: Rich
- D: Democratic
- Along with white, male, heterosexual and protestant
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Race
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Socially constructed used to categorize people based on skin color, phenotype & at times by language
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General Psychology
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Systematic study of thinking, feelings and behaviors
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Psychosocial model
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- Thoughts & behaviors are shaped by contexts
* Mind & culture are entangled with eachother
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Invisible veil
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- Values & beliefs operating outside a person’s consciousness
- Dominant group does not see the issue
- Self-identified heterosexual & bathroom example
