CULTURAL ASPECTS final!
Week 9
- Social network: webs of connections that link people either directly or indirectly to other people
- Nodes: individuals who share connections
- Tides: the relations between individuals
- Social context: the environment of people, cultures, and relationships that surround us
- Bridging: the development of ties with people that are dissimilar in important ways
- Bonding: the development of ties with people who are similar in some important ways (age, gender, race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, etc.)
- Echo chamber: where like-minded individuals repeat your opinions back to you rather than exposing you to variations and differences
- Default whiteness: the tendency to view white people’s behaviors, perspectives, and values as the norm for all people
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Week 10
- Teamwork: the coordinated effort by people working towards a common goal
- Synergy: the concept that members of a team working cooperatively will accomplish much more than individuals acting alone
- Trust: a set of expectations that the healthcare provider will do the best for the patient; the ability of the team and the single team members as well as the meaning of the task to solve
- Conflict: a struggle resulting from incompatible or opposing needs, drives, wishes, or external or internal demands.
- Conflict management: the process by which conflict is dealt with in an effective and constructive manner
- Decenter: being willing to shift your perspective and look at multiple points of view
- Recenter: working with your team to identify a common plan or goal
- Groupthink: the tendency to go along with the group and discourage different options
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Week 14
- Cohort effect: the unique historical experiences that shape and mold a generation’s thinking and behavior
- Period effect: major life-altering events, such as war, social change, and technological advances affect everyone, but some generations more than others
- Lifecycle effect: the change in a generation’s behaviors and attitudes over time due to changes in the roles people play and their biological maturation
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Week 15
- Translator: provides written language services
- Interpreter: provides spoken language services
- Consecutive interpreting: occurs when one person takes the source language form speaker 1 and produces it in the target language for speaker 2…the exchange is reversed, and the source language comes from speaker 2 and is produced in the target language by speaker 1
- Simultaneous interpreting: occurs when the interpreter simultaneously relays the information to the audience or individual
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- Whole Brain Definition: functioning of both cortex and the brainstem cease
- Cortical Brain Standard: function of the cortex ceases; the irreversible loss of capacity for consciousness
- Grief: the personal emotions that follow death
- Bereavement: the experiences that follow the death of a loved one
- Mourning: the process through which grief (emotions) are expressed
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