Answer — Exercise 10
6 - A shock to the system·Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book
Питання
Listen again and answer the questions.
Відповідь
- That it’s only to do with moving to new countries, whereas actually it can happen inside your own country too, when you move from one situation to another. Also, that it’s something you can recover from quickly, like an illness or like jet lag, whereas in fact it’s a process that can take ages to go through.
- Acculturation is what psychologists call the process of going through the stages of culture shock.
- elation, resistance, transformation and integration
- elation: positive feelings when everything is new and exciting; resistance: things settle into a routine and people see the negative aspects of the new environment, the old situation seems much better; transformation: they swing to the other extreme and look down on their old situation; integration: where they see pros and cons of both the new world and the old situation.
- You don’t finish the cycle. You don’t achieve closure. You get stuck in one particular stage. This can cause unhappiness and frustration.