When someone is exposed to a new culture he can find that the challenge is not as great as he believed
it often does not live up to his expectations
he becomes very homesick, especially for his favourite foods
it isn't at all unusual to experience culture shock
the necessary adjustment takes a long time
It is stated that if one doesn't adjust quickly to the new culture, one probably never will
successful adjustment to the new culture depends on how one handles the culture shock
culture shock is a sign that a person is not capable of adapting to life abroad
culture shock may bring about social changes which are difficult to cope with
people with psychological or emotional disorders are most likely to suffer from culture shock
One of the symptoms of culture shock is that one becomes unable to think logically
your emotions start going from one extreme to another without warning
people lose their appetites and so become undernourished
one tends to start believing one is physically ill when one is not
the person may be suspicious of what he eats and drinks
128 FIELDS OF PSYCHOLOGY Psychology comprises a number of different kinds of enterprises, so different that they may seem to have nothing in common. One psychologist is engaged in vocational guidance and spends his day talking to high school students, studying their academic records and their test scores and, from these, showing the student how to clarify his own ideas about his future training and occupation. Another spends his day studying delayed reactions in goldfish or the navigation system of bats. Other psychologists are assisting in the diagnosis of neurotic patients, doing research on the childhood experiences that contribute to neurosis, or taking part in combined research on the effects of tranquilizers. But all such disparate activities have this in common: the methods used all derive from the same fundamental training in the procedures and conceptions of academic psychology, and the worker is either putting those conceptions to practical use, or trying to improve on them - or both.