April 2011
3 posts
Musa A Blog # 10
“Culture shock due to Contact with Unfamilar cultures:”
culture shock is a way to discuss the psychololgical processes that takes place between two groups in their cultural backgrounds. Meeting two societies that travel from their cultural background place to another country. they rarely have a lot of time. when a person travels a lot they call him/her sojourner. when...
“Understanding communication and cultural competence”.
Cultural competenc y is the way which people in a given culture communicate in appropriate and effective manner. When I came to the United States I had trouble communicating with other people. It was hard to learn about another culture. It was hard to understand the context to English language and cultural...
Experiment
Obedience to Authority was tested by the Milgram Experiment. The subjects who were tested were teachers in the Experiment and they punished the learners who are actors when they got their answers wrong. The man in the white coat was the authority in the Experiment and encouraged the subjects not to stop punishing the learners even if they were in pain. The results showed that about 50 percent of...
March 2011
2 posts
On Tuesday it was the crazy day for me because I was late in the class and when I want their every thing was differenct the students was not staying on their normals chair and everyone move for their tables. And when my friend and I enter the class the first thing the teacher she tells us that we are late and we have to go with the immigrants students but I did not understant what was...
Mental illness
Unit 9 Chapter 1 and 4.
The first article is about mental illness. How people in different culture believe how to help people with mental illness. In South East Asia many people believe that the Shaman can get the spirit out of a person’s body, so that he can get well. In Western Europe many people believe in something different. They believe in psychiatry. They use medication and suggest therapy...
January 2011
1 post
