Janet is a doctoral student in counseling psychology. She intends to be a psychotherapist someday, and wants to be able to work with people of diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds with equal skill. She takes several classes to help her develop her ______
a) cultural competence
b) ethnocentrism
c) counter-factual racial approach
d) national eclecticism
ANS: A, Cultural competence reflects the ability to work with clients of different cultural backgrounds by learning about how their culture impacts their lives and their psychological circumstances.
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A) classical conditioning B) operant conditioning C) latent learning D) observational learning
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