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Hofestede Culture def.   culture is the collective programming of the mid that distinguishes the members of a group or category of people from others  
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Power Distance   Degree to which members of a national culture automatically accept a hierarchal or unequal distribution of power in organizations and the society  
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Uncertainty Avoidance   Degree to which members of a given national culture deal with the uncertainty and risk of everyday life and prefer to work with long-term acquaintances and friends rather than with strangers  
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Masculinity   degree to which a national culture looks favorably on aggressive and materialistic behavior  
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Individualism and Collectivism   degree to which individuals in a given national culture perceive themselves as separate from others and free from group pressures to conform  
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Time Orientation   degree to which members of a national culture would defer gratification to achieve long-term success (short-term-->long-term)  
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Subjective Culture   Characteristic way of perceiving its social environment (Categories and assc, beliefs, attitudes, norms, roles, tasks, values, value orientation  
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Categories   analyzing the categories that people use  
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Categories have associations   emic associations  
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Beliefs   link among categories  
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Attitudes   ideas charged with affect (emotion) predisposing action  
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Norms   ideas about behavior expected of members of a group  
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Roles   Ideas about the correct behavior of people who hold a position in a social group  
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Tasks   sequence of behaviors  
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Values   conceptions of the desirable state of affairs  
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Value orientation   more abstract set of values  
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Emic   -culture specific concepts -Insider approach ex: used when describing cultures -focuses on a single culture -within the system -anthropology  
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Etic   -universal or culture general concepts -outsider ex: used when comparing cultures -looks at several cultures -outside the system  
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Ethnocentrism   tendency to judge other people and cultures by the standards of one's own culture & to believe that the behaviors, customs, norms, & other characteristics of one's own group are natural, valid, and correct while others are unnatural, invalid, & incorrect  
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Ethnorelativism   The experience of one's own belief and behaviors are just one organization of reality among many viable possibilities  
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6 Stages of development of intercultural sensitivity   -Denial -defense -minimization -acceptance -adaptation -integration  
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Denial   Ignorance is accepted  
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Defense   able to perceive cultural differences, different=wrong  
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Minimization   everyone is the same...as me  
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Acceptance   people know their own cultural identity and accept others cultural identities  
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Adaptation   intercultural empathy  
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Integration   Identity is fluid, not necessarily better than adaptation  
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Cultural Craziness   -Culture is implicated in the expression and experience of psych pathology  
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Psychological Disorder   a rare impairment  
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Cultural Bounde-syndromes   syndromes that appear to be greatly influenced by cultural factors, and hence occur far less frequently, or are manifested highly divergent ways, in other cultures Ex: eating disorders, voodoo death, hikkimori, amok, susto  
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Universal syndromes   Depression social anxiety disorder suicide schizophrenia  
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Cultural limitations of psychotherapy   -psychotherapy is inescapably bound to a particular cultural framework -there can be non value-free psychotherapy -barriers to seeking treatment  
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Four social functions of humor   -Meaning making -Hierarchy building -cohesion building -tension relief  
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Meaning Making   mechanisms for defining reality  
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Hierarchy Building   a compatible but more narrow version of meaning-making functions of humor is the proposal that joking creates status differentiation ("serves to help structure local interaction hierarchies)  
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Cohesion Building   is used for interpersonal emotion management. -Used as an equalizer and harmonizer  
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Tension Relief   -Humor as a stress-reducing tool. -In task oriented groups it: helps accomplish group goals and maintain smooth relations  
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Humor in Advertisement   Humor is one of the most widely employed message techniques in modern advertising  
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Humor in counseling   humor helps gain pleasure despite painful effects which disturb it, acts as a substitute  
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Hofestede 5 Dimensions in humor   -Individualism vs collectivism -Hierarchy -Aggression & Gender -Otherness & Truth -Long-term vs Short-term  
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Individualism vs collectivism   expect jokes as self-contained units should be more prevalent among individualistic societies. Collectivistic societies would tend to adopt more implicit and contextual forms of humor  
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Hierarchy   by definition, a joke is a fictious story that carries no relationship with the real world. Autocratic leaders fear the force of humor  
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Aggression & Gender   expect masculine societies to joke at the expense of women or of men in positions subordinate to women  
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Otherness & Truth   uncertainty avoidance most affects the context of jokes -one would expect jokes to be made about them unless socially taboo topics  
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Long-term vs. Short term   short term is about living for the day, long term is about planning the present for long-term goals  
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Jokes as ethnography   many jokes are told about national stereo-types & they enjoy great popularity (serve as reinforcement of stereo-types) -jokes carry culture. are a form of folk tales.  
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Il Tragic-comico   most appreciated humor in Italy it points out the absurdities and ironies in daily life. -Italian humor grounded in reality ex: poverty, old age, death, sickness, hunger, misery  
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Hofestede Personality big 5   -Openness to experience -Conscientiousness - Extraversion -Agreeableness -Neuroticism  
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Openness to experience   inventive/ curious vs. consistent/cautious  
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Conscientiousness   efficient/organized vs. easy-going/careless  
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Extraversion   outgoing/energetic vs. solitary/reserved  
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Agreeableness   friendly/compassionate vs. cold/unkind  
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Neuroticism   sensitive/nervous vs secure/confident  
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Sociocultural approach   cognitive development as progressive increase of contexts experienced by child. forming a base of his/her representation of knowledge  
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Knowledge Era   Dramatic increase of the importance of literacy as an ingredient of economic and social participation  
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P.I.S.A   program for international student assessment. -every 3yrs accesses how much students have learned -measures: mathematical, scientific, reading literacy, and problem solving  
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Psychotherapy   biggest tool used by psychologists to improve the life of abnormal behavior disorders-whose lives are dysfunctional  
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Triandis-culture def   Is a shared pattern of beliefs, attitudes, norms, role perceptions, and values  
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10 sets of values   -self-direction -stimulation -hedonism -achievement -power -security -conformity -tradition -benevolence -universalism  
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Self-direction   creativity, freedom, choosing own goals, curiosity  
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Stimulation   a varied life, an excited life, daring  
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Hedonism   pleasure, enjoying life  
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Achievement   ambitious, successful, capable  
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Power   authority, wealth, social recognition  
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Security   social order, clean, healthy, sense of belonging  
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Conformity   obedient, self-disciplined, politeness  
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Tradition   respect for tradition, humble, devout  
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Benevolence   helpful, loyal, forgiving  
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Universalism   broad minded, social justice, world of beauty  
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Value Orientation   -Innate human nature -Man nature -Modality of human activities  
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Innate human nature   which can be evil, neutral, a mixture of good and bad, or good, mutable or immutable  
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Man nature   can involve subjugation to, harmony with, or mastery over nature  
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Modality of human activities   emphasis on being (cherishing the experience) being-in, becoming, (changing, growing, self-actualization)  
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