Intercultural Comm. EXAM 4 – Flashcards

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According to Bantz, when working in multicultural and international groups, increased attention and efforts to the following area(s) is most useful.
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All of the above.
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Which statement about the business context is TRUE?
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Cultures differ in the preferred flow of business negotiations.
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In the Educational context, cultural differences may lead to dissimilarities in the expectations about competent behaviors for students and teachers.
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True
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Which is NOT a component of social episodes?
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Interaction treaties
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The metaphor used by the authors to describe cultural patterns is
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Tinted glasses that color everything people see.
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Which of the following are cultural beliefs about education from the European American perspective.
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All of the above
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The settings or situations within which social episodes occur are called
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Interaction contexts.
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Which statement about the educational context is FALSE?
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The value of education is similar across most cultures.
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Which is NOT an example of social episodes?
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Reading a book
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Which approach to health care emphasizes that one must maintain a sense of balance with nature?
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Holistic approach
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Classrooms in collectivist cultures are characterized by
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Students who are more accepting of messages about appropriate classroom behaviors.
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Organizations within collectivistic cultures typically empower their negotiators to make decisions without consultation.
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False
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Within a business context, which statement about collectivistic cultures is FALSE?
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Organizations empower their negotiators to make decisions without collective consultation.
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Variations in individualism-collectivism associated with intercultural communication include
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All of the above.
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Which of the following is NOT an approach to health care as described by Lustig and Koester?
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Sociological approach
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Which statement about social roles is FALSE?
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Your social role is the same thing as your social behavior.
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The health care system in the United States tends to be based upon which of the following approaches to beliefs about health?
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Biomedical approach
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Rules of interaction include which of the following?
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All of the above
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The recurring, repetitive topics that people talk about in social conversations are called
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Interaction scenes.
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Which is NOT true of social episodes?
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They occur annually.
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Which of the following is likely to lead to positive attitudes in intercultural communication?
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Someone in authority supports intercultural contact.
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Motives for visiting other places include
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All of the above.
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__________ occurs when members of a more politically and economically powerful cultural group do NOT want to have contact with certain cultural groups.
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Segregation
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Adaptation includes which of the following?
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All of the above
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If people feel that aspects of their cultural identity are being threatened, what is likely to happen?
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Increased group identity
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New information technologies can assist in dealing with culture shock by
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B and C.
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The cultural group that has primary access to institutional and economic power is often characterized as
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Dominant culture
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What is the preferred term for the process that takes place when an individual goes through changes as a result of intercultural contacts?
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Adaptation
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The force of promoting isolationism, nationalism, spiritualism and tribalism
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Derives from the desire to preserve, protect and defend what is seen as unique but threatened.
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Different forms of adaptation include
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All of the above
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The patina of familiarity and commonality suggests that
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All of the above
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When your behaviors conform to cultural expectations of the host culture they
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Show respect for the host culture and its ways.
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Ethical communicators should do the following:
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A and C
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According to Kale, what is one of the universal values that all cultures hold?
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Striving for a world at peace
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During an intercultural interaction, the unique speech patterns of members of cultures who are subordinate to institutionally and economically dominant cultures can be
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Both emphasized and deemphasized.
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The force of promoting engagement, globalism, secularism and capitalism
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Is nurtured and sustained by economic interdependence.
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Cultural relativism is the belief that
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Individual cultures must be judged within their own set of values.
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When individuals move beyond the thoughts, feelings and behaviors of their own cultures and incorporate other cultural realities, a process of __________ takes place.
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Intercultural personhood
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Assimilation into a new culture will occur when an individual
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All of the above.
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When people must deal with a barrage of new perceptual stimuli that are difficult to interpret because of a change in cultural context, they are experiencing
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Culture Shock
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The actions that people take to deal with the face-needs of oneself and others is called
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Facework
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The consequences of uncertainty and anxiety management behaviors that are applicable to intercultural communication are grouped under what two generic labels?
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Informational consequences and emotional consequences
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Competence in developing and maintaining intercultural relationships requires which of the following?
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All of the above
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In individualistic cultures,
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Preserving one's own face is most important.
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Emotional consequences of uncertainty and anxiety management may include
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All of the above.
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As one of the three primary dimensions used by people throughout the world to interpret interpersonal communication messages, affiliation
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Is used by members of a culture to interpret the degree of friendliness, liking, social warmth, etc.
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Competent interpersonal relationships among people from different cultures
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Occur as a result of the knowledge and perceptions that people have about one another.
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Family or kinship relationships can be characterized by the following questions:
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All of the above
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Which of the following is NOT a condition that leads to increased uncertainty and anxiety management behaviors?
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The other people exhibit behaviors that are consistent with what you had been expecting.
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The three general strategies to gain information and reduce the level of uncertainty are
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Passive, active, and interactive.
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The openness-closedness dialectic in interpersonal relationships
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Refers to people's desire to share or withhold personal information.
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Which term describes the range of topics that are revealed during self disclosure?
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Breadth
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Which type of information-gathering strategy reduces the level of uncertainty during actual conversation with the other person?
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Interactive
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The term face refers to
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All of the above.
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When a person acts deviantly, it most often means that
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The person is often disliked and is regarded as interpersonally unattractive.
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According to Ting-Toomey, in which type of culture are individuals able to express their agitation and anger about an issue and then joke and socialize with the person?
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Individualistic cultures
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The authors discussed five types of changes in perceptions and behaviors that most likely occur as a relationship moves from an initial acquaintance to a close friendship. Which of the following was NOT listed by the authors?
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As a result of increased time together, the people will begin having minor to major conflicts to handle.
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The autonomy-connection dialectic in interpersonal relationships
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Refers to the extent to which individuals vary in their desire for separation to a feeling of attachment.
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Which of the following are the three primary dimensions used by people throughout the world to interpret interpersonal communication messages?
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Control, affiliation, and activation
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Which three kinds of face needs are suggested by Tae-Seop Lim?
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Control, approval, and admiration
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