PSY 141 Assignment: Introduction To Psychology B

Discuss two key psychological concepts, theories or processes, which you can select from the following chapters:

• Intelligence
• Cross Cultural
• Sensation and Perception
• Consciousness

The humanitarian and the community studies mainly provide the opportunity for the students in learning, critically analyzing and applying the concepts of the human service delivery in the field of humanitarian aid, social and community engagement (Green et al., 2017). The individuals get scopes of being employed for service delivery in the field of humanitarian aid, social as well as community engagement. The workers mainly need to develop the essential knowledge as well as skills required in working with the individuals as well as groups not only from the indigenous communities but also for the different disadvantaged and generalized communities of the nation (Sue et al., 2015). The individuals working in the fields need to develop an in-depth knowledge in the domains of the psychology, sociology as well as in the human behaviors ethics and even cross-cultural communications skills. They also need to develop awareness for not only the indigenous culture and knowledge but about the different cultures of the people who reside in the nation besides the non-indigenous Australians. This assignment would thereby focus on two important concepts like cross-cultural skills as well as perception and sensation. It will show how the two concepts help in overcoming various issues in the domain and how the skills can be developed in order to improve the condition of the disorder.

Cross-cultural competence can be defined as the ability of the individuals in understanding, communicating and interacting effectively with people across different cultures. Researchers are of the opinion that cross-cultural competence by every social and community worker should comprise of being aware of the individual’s own point of view and developing attitudes that helps in successful and sensitive handling of the cultural differences among the various clients who need support (Fisher et al., 2015). Cross-cultural competence mainly helps in allowing the social an community workers to become more attuned with and sensitive for different individuals, family and different group specific needs, values, beliefs and attitudes. This is done in order to provide more culturally competent interventions, services as well as supports that align with the cultural traditions, perceptions as well as inhibitions of the different clients coming from different backgrounds.

Researchers are of the opinion that cross-cultural competence is mainly about the will and actions for building a proper understanding between people (Mason et al., 2018). They also need to be open and respectful for the different cultural perspectives that would be required for strengthening of the cultural security and helps in working towards equality and the opportunity. Relationship building is fundamental to cross-cultural competence and is therefore based on the foundations of understanding each other’s expectations and attitudes and subsequently building on the strengthening of each other’s knowledge (Ochs & Scheiefflein, 2017).

From this concept, there arises the importance of another concept called the sensation and the perception. These two concepts are intimately related but they may be seen to play different roles how one individuals perceives the world. Sensation refers to the procedures of sensing the environment through proper touch, taste, sight, sound as well as smelling. This information is sent to the brains in the raw form and in this arena, the perception is seen to play roles. Perception is the way by which individuals are seen to interpret these sensations and thereby participates in making sense of everything surround them (Truong et al., 2014). Therefore, in a summarized form, sensation has been explained by researchers as the passive processing of the bringing in the information from outside world into the body and then to the brain. This process is termed as passive by many researchers because an individual does not have to engage actively in the sensing procedure. It can be defined as the active process of selection, organization and interpretation of the information that is brought to the brain by the senses.

The nation of Australia has become egalitarian in nature. This means that the nation believes in respecting equal rights and opportunities of all the residents of the nation irrespective of their background, class, ethnicity, race and religion. Moreover, the nation is trying its best to ensure equality among all members of the nation so that every person gets the full potential to love successful and healthy lives (foley & Matlin, 2015). However, the outcomes that had been reported shows a different result and failing of the close the gap campaign had been seen to be one of the biggest example. The Aboriginal Australians are seen to still facing disadvantages and the huge gap in the health status between the Aboriginal Australians and the non-indigenous Australians is one such example.

One closely analyzing the causes of the failures of the different campaigns for not only the Aboriginal Australians but also of the different culturally and linguistically diverse communities, important data has been found which is extremely important for the individuals working as health professionals and social and community workers of the nation (Mather, 2016). It has been found that considerations and participations of the representatives of the communities is one such cause. Due to absence of the participation, the western health and community workers are not able to understand exactly their needs and requirement. Another main cause is the improper incompetent cross-cultural communication that takes among the professionals and that of the communities and clients who need support. Even data has suggested that the professionals exhibit improper verbal and non-verbal communication skills that do not align with that of the culturally diverse communities. Examples can be provided in case of the cross-cultural incompetency to shed more light on the issues.

Asians do not prefer eye contact while communicating with the professionals while direct eye contact is considered as an important aspect of eastern communication medium helping in developing trusts and shows genuine feelings (Cabarello et al., 2015). Therefore, when a professional works with culturally diverse Asian communities they need to be careful in managing such non-verbal skills and for this they need to have proper cross- cultural competence. Moreover, in case of the native people of the nation, they are seen to prefer silence during conversations whereas silence during western mode of communication is disliked and shows the urgency of the communicators to fill the gap (Zuckerman et al., 2014). Therefore, it becomes extremely important for the community workers to develop cross-cultural knowledge and …

Incomplete Solution …