PSY321H1 Lecture Notes - Stereotype Threat, Asian Americans, 3 Women
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Lecture 4 cultural psychology october 3rd 2012 thursday. [def] process of migrating to and learning cultural different from original. Difficult to study generalize: three stages: Feeling to the host culture in the y-axis. You are not as interesting to the host culture people, and you start to have problem making friends. Doesn"t take the same stages for everyone. L-shape curve in such that there is no adjustment time. [ex] japan is a country with high level of homogeneity attitude towards new practices: you either assimilate, or it simply doesn"t work out, cultural distance. [def] differences between two cultures (heritage and host) Clustering in terms of how similar the language roots are. Germanic romance other i-e (indo-european language) non-indo-european language. People tend to not acculturate as well with large distance in languages. [exp] malaysian students study (ward et al. , 1995) Fewer difficulties in singapore than new zealand. Different stratified levels lead to different levels of acculturation.
