PSYCO341 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Stereotype Threat, Claude Steele, Code-Switching
1 May 2014
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What happens when people move to a new culture: moving to a new culture involves psychological adjustment as well. Changes in attitudes toward the host culture: migrants, those who move from a heritage culture(home culture) to a host culture ( another culture). Sojourners only intend to stay temporarily (vacation) , immigrants intend to move permanently. Lysgaard, 1955 identified an adjustment pattern that he called the u curve. Has three stages: honeymoon stage: in initial months, migrants had an especially positive time. And most people go back to their countries so they have good memories as this point. But those that stay now move onto the next phase: crisis or culture shock stage: most then begin to have increasingly negative views toward their host culture, between 6- 18months: culture shock, the feeling of being anxious, helpless, irritable, and in general, homesick that one experiences on moving to a new culture.
