PSQF 1075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Test Anxiety, Second Language, Heritage Language

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
• Course: PSQF 1075
• Professor: Kelly Mitchell

Document Summary

Culture: the knowledge, values, attitudes, and traditions that guide the behavior of a group of people and allow them to solve the problems of living in their environment. Social class reflects a group"s prestige and power in a society. Resistance culture: group values and beliefs about refusing to adopt behaviors and attitudes of the majority culture. Tracking: assignment to different classes and academic experiences based on achievement. Immigrants: people who voluntarily leave their country to become permanent residents in a new place. Refugees: are special group of immigrants who relocate voluntarily, but are fleeing their home because it is not safe. Melting pot: metaphor for the absorption and assimilation of immigrants into the mainstream of society so that ethnic differences vanish. Old view was that minority group members and immigrants should lose their cultural distinctiveness and assimilate completely in the melting pot. Multiculturalism: equal educational opportunity and the celebration of cultural diversity not repressing cultures.