Psychology Counseling Module 1 Quiz

The concept of minority-majority status means that the combined minority (racial background other than white) population of a community, county or state is more than

50% of the overall population

Based on the demographic population projections developed by the California Department of Finance

Alameda County has already become a "minority-majority" status county based on population statistics for the year 2000.

One of the major premises of multicultural psychology is that:

All behavior is learned and occurs in a cultural context

_________________ refers to critical incidents where people from different cultural, ethnic, or linguistic backgrounds come into social contact with each other.

Culture contact

According to a study conducted by David Matsumoto and colleagues (1977), what are the three categories people use most often to define culture?

Expression, history and beliefs

Which of the following racial/ethnic group classifications is NOT considered an official "race" category by the United States Census Bureau

Hispanic or Latino

Which of the following is NOT one of the six ways "culture" is used in everyday language?

Prescriptive

Which of he following is NOT one of the levels of the Biopsychosocial model of human behavior?

Psychological

Which of the terms best describes psychology's approach to multicultural issues?

Resistant

Race differs from culture in that culture focuses on:

The shared attitudes and beliefs of a group