PSYC 3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Test Of English As A Foreign Language, Culture Shock, Acculturation

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3350
• Professor: Francois Lalonde

Document Summary

Process by which individuals mirgrate to and learn a culture that is di erent from their own. Ideally acculturation should be studied longitudinally: pre-migration and post- migration. The psychological adjustment is often associated with stress. Cultural freezing occurs, when individuals" expectations are based on the culture of their country when they left. Cultural distance: how similar the hertiage culture is to the host culture. Language: languages which share recent common linguistic ancestor, are more siliar in grammar and morphology: toefl test by native tongue, the internet has facilitated exposure to the english language. It was easier for malasian international students to successfully adjust when they went to school in singapore than in new zealand. Colonizers had to learn how to survive in canada from the first nations. The colonizers had more power, so they were able to in uence the culture of the first.