Alana, who is Mexican American, has experienced repeated but veiled prejudiced remarks by students and faculty at college. Her first job after college is in a Latino community arts center in a predominantly Latino community, where she also plans to live. What acculturative strategy is this?

a. marginalized
b. bicultural
c. separating
d. assimilating


Ans: c. separating

Psychology

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preoccupied about possible problems with the classroom equipment, James actually does experience problems with the computer projection system during his first lecture. Psychologist Claude Steele referred to this as a. scapegoating. b. stereotype threat. c. dogmatism. d. cognitive dissonance.

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Which situation best illustrates Beck's concept of overgeneralization in depressives? a. When it rains on the day of the picnic, the host feels he should have scheduled it for another day

b. Despite feeling great anger at his mother, a boy yells at himself. c. When a girl is complimented on her hair, she assumes that the person who complimented her was just showing pity for her. d. A man burns the toast one morning at breakfast and concludes that he is a worthless father and husband.

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If George has strong needs to become a politician upon graduating from college, Jung would claim that he is likely to be a(n):

a. extraverted intuitive type b. extraverted thinking type c. introverted thinking type d. introverted sensing type

Psychology

Approximately _____of American adolescents believe in God or a universal spirit, but only about ____ attend religious services at least twice a month

a. 65%; 38% b. 84%; 52% c. 63%; 18% d. 38%; 10%

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