AP Human Geography diffusion vocabulary

Contagious diffusion

• occurs when numerous places or people near the point of origin become adopter's (of infected, the case of a disease.)

• occurs when the diffusion innovation or concept spreads from a place or person of power of high susceptibility to another in a leveled pattern.

Example of stimulus diffusion: different menu items from McDonalds around the world

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Example of contagious diffusion: Hinduism spreading around the world.

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Example of hierarchical diffusion: many people cutting their hair the way Taylor Swift did.

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Example of relocation diffusion: Spread of Christianity, when people moved and brought it with them.

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Hierarchical diffusion: occurs when the diffusion innovation or concept spreads from a place or person of power of high susceptibility to another in a leveled pattern

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Relocation diffusion: involves the actual movement of the original adopters from their point of origin to a new place.

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Stimulus diffusion: occurs when the innovative idea diffuses from its hearth outward, but the original idea is changed by the new adopters.

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Hearth is an area where new ideas and innovations spring up and spread to other parts of the world. (The word is not on the list, but it is used in the definitions.)

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