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The process by which others attribute identities to an individual is?

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Ascription

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Which is true about high-context communication?

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Contains contexts and nonverbal cues A style of communication in which much of the info is contained in the contexts and nonverbal cues rather than in words

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Worldviews are...

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Underlingy assumption about the nature of reality and human behavior

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Which approach to intercultural communication has the goal of initiating social change?

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Critical approach: A metatheoretical approach that includes many assumptions of the interpretive approach but focus more on macroconexts, such as political and social structures that influence communication.

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A culture with less specific gender roles that values the quality of life for all has?

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Feminine values

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Which is true concerning the influence of culture on the formation of our identities?

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The development of cultural identity is influenced largely by history.

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Which of the following describes how competent intercultural communicators negotiate identities in conversation?

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Most individuals are able to negotiate day-to-day activities in spite of cultural differences. Diversity can even be a positive force. Demogrpahic diversity in the U.S. has given us tremendous linguistic richness and culinary variety, varied resources to meet new social challenges, as well as domestic and international business opportunities.

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How did E. T. Hall contribute to the origins of intercultural communication?

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Was hired by the foreign service institute to help develop a course for oversea workers. Also, introduced the notion of Proxemics (how people use personal space) and identified four distance zones: intimate, personal, social, and public.

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The study of meaning is?

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Semantics, how individual words communicate the meanings we intend.

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It is important to understand the role of power in construction of historical accounts because?

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Power is a central dynamic in the writing of history. It influences the content of the history we know and the way it is delivered. Power dictates what is taught and what is silenced, what is available and what is erased.

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Which dialectic of intercultural communication addresses the fact that some of our cultural patterns are constant and some are shifting?

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Static-Dynamic Dialectic.

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Which of the following is true about the relationship between communication and context?

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Context typically is created by the physical or social aspects of the situation in which communication occurs. The physical characteristics of the setting influence the communication. People communicate differently depending on the context. Context is neither static nor objective and it can be multilayered Context may consist of the social, political, and historical structures in which the communication occurs.

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\"Symbolic significance\" in the definition of communication can be defined as?

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The importance or meaning that most members of a cultural group attach to a communication activity.

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Which identity stresses the importance of emotional connectedness to and interdependence with others?

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Familial identity.

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\"A symbolic process whereby reality is produced, maintained, repaired and transformed\" is a definition of?

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Communication.

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How does nonverbal communication differ from verbal communication?

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Nonverbal is more unconscious and learned implicitly.

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Which of the following is NOT typically communicated by nonverbal behaviors?

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Nonverbal behaviors are: gestures, postures, eye contact, facial expressions.

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Which of the following is true about nonverbal behavior?

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Varies by culture.

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What label refers to the way people conceptualize and think about time?

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Monochronic - linear and a commodity that can be lost or gained. Polychronic - circular and holistic.

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Which of the following is true about cultural spaces?

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The social and cultural contexts in which our identity forms. Influences cultural identity and includes home/neighborhoods/regions/nations Two ways of changing are Travel and Migration. Postmodern cultural spaces, like cyberspace, are tenuous and dynamic.

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Which orientation to time prevails in the United States?

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Monochronic

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Which of the following is NOT a universal facial expression?

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Universal: Happy, Sad, Fear, Anger, Surpise, Disgust.

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This study is one of the many ways to think about language, plus it provides us with a useful foundation for our exploration of language in intercultural communication.

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Study of Linguistics

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This school of thought rejects the Sapir-Whorf assumption that the particular language we speak compels us to perceive the world in a particular way and prevents us from thinking in different ways.

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Qualified Relativist Position

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Which communication style is preferred in the United States?

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Low-Context Communication.

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The process of learning a language is known as?

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Language Acquisition

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Researchers are able to prevent their own cultural biases from affecting their intercultural research.

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False

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Code switching refers to the phenomenon of changing languages, dialects, or accents

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True

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Worldviews have little influence on the approach researchers take to studying intercultural communication.

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False

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The ability to behave effectively and appropriately in interacting across cultures is called intercultural competence.

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True

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Social science, interpretivist, and critical perspectives are contradictory and cannot be connected in ways that help us better understand social reality.

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False

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The goal of researchers who study human behavior from the interpretive perspective is to explain and predict human behavior.

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False

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Interdisciplinary means integrating knowledge from different areas of study in conducting research and constructing theory.

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True

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Cultures that emphasize quick results in endeavors and social pressure to conform have a long-term orientation.

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False

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Positive stereotypes are not damaging or harmful to individuals of a cultural group.

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False

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Prejudice is often expressed by nonverbal behaviors.

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True

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Blind children's facial expressions are very different from seeing children's facial expressions.

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False

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