Module 4 - Culture, Spirituality,
Complementary and Alternative
Therapies, and Loss (Ch. 5, 27,
42, 45 [Taylor] Ch. 7 [Brunner] Ch.
10 [Videbeck]) with complete
solutions
Define Cultural Assimilation- - answer -Process that occurs when a
minority group, living as part of a dominant group within a culture, loses
the cultural characteristics that made it different.
Define Cultural Blindness: - answer -The process of ignoring differences
in people and proceeding as though the differences do not exist.
Define Cultural Competence: - answer -
Define Cultural Diversity: - answer -Diverse groups in society, with
varying racial classifications and national origins, religious affiliations,
languages, physical size, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability,
socioeconomic status, occupational status, and geographic location.
Define Cultural Imposition: - answer -Tendency of some to impose their
beliefs, practices, and values on another culture because they believe that
their ideas are superior to those of another person or group.
Define Culture: - answer -Sum total of human behavior or social
characteristics particular to a specific group and passed from generation
to generation or from one to another within the group.
Define Culture Conflict: - answer -Situation that occurs when people
become aware of cultural differences, feel threatened, and respond by
, ridiculing the beliefs and traditions of others to make themselves feel
more secure about their own values.
Define Culture Shock: - answer -Those feelings, usually negative, a
person experiences when placed in a different culture.
Define Ethnicity: - answer -Sense of identification that a cultural group
collectively has; the sharing of common and unique cultural and social
beliefs and behavior patterns, including language and dialect, religious
practices, literature, folklore, music, political interests, food preferences,
and employment patterns.
Define Ethnocentrism: - answer -Belief that one's own ideas, beliefs, and
practices are best, superior, or most preferred to those of others; using
one's cultural norms as the standard to evaluate others' beliefs. (AKA
Racism).
Define Linguistic Competence: - answer -
Define Personal Space: - answer -External environment surrounding a
person that is regarded as being part of that person.
Define Race: - answer -Division of human beings based on distinct
physical characteristics.
Define Stereotyping: - answer -Assigning characteristics to a group of
people without considering specific individuality.
Define Subculture: - answer -Group of people with different interests or
goals than the primary culture.
Define Transcultural Nursing: - answer -
Define Acupuncture: - answer -Procedure consisting of placing very thin,
short, sterile needles at particular acupoints, believed to be centers of
Complementary and Alternative
Therapies, and Loss (Ch. 5, 27,
42, 45 [Taylor] Ch. 7 [Brunner] Ch.
10 [Videbeck]) with complete
solutions
Define Cultural Assimilation- - answer -Process that occurs when a
minority group, living as part of a dominant group within a culture, loses
the cultural characteristics that made it different.
Define Cultural Blindness: - answer -The process of ignoring differences
in people and proceeding as though the differences do not exist.
Define Cultural Competence: - answer -
Define Cultural Diversity: - answer -Diverse groups in society, with
varying racial classifications and national origins, religious affiliations,
languages, physical size, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability,
socioeconomic status, occupational status, and geographic location.
Define Cultural Imposition: - answer -Tendency of some to impose their
beliefs, practices, and values on another culture because they believe that
their ideas are superior to those of another person or group.
Define Culture: - answer -Sum total of human behavior or social
characteristics particular to a specific group and passed from generation
to generation or from one to another within the group.
Define Culture Conflict: - answer -Situation that occurs when people
become aware of cultural differences, feel threatened, and respond by
, ridiculing the beliefs and traditions of others to make themselves feel
more secure about their own values.
Define Culture Shock: - answer -Those feelings, usually negative, a
person experiences when placed in a different culture.
Define Ethnicity: - answer -Sense of identification that a cultural group
collectively has; the sharing of common and unique cultural and social
beliefs and behavior patterns, including language and dialect, religious
practices, literature, folklore, music, political interests, food preferences,
and employment patterns.
Define Ethnocentrism: - answer -Belief that one's own ideas, beliefs, and
practices are best, superior, or most preferred to those of others; using
one's cultural norms as the standard to evaluate others' beliefs. (AKA
Racism).
Define Linguistic Competence: - answer -
Define Personal Space: - answer -External environment surrounding a
person that is regarded as being part of that person.
Define Race: - answer -Division of human beings based on distinct
physical characteristics.
Define Stereotyping: - answer -Assigning characteristics to a group of
people without considering specific individuality.
Define Subculture: - answer -Group of people with different interests or
goals than the primary culture.
Define Transcultural Nursing: - answer -
Define Acupuncture: - answer -Procedure consisting of placing very thin,
short, sterile needles at particular acupoints, believed to be centers of
