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How do appropriateness and effectiveness relate to intercultural communication competence?
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Sauceda argues that Chicano/a membership is based on ________.
a. ones identification with the group
b. common shared ancestry
c. common interests
d. a rejection of Caucasian ethnicity
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What is intercultural communication competence?
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Which statement below is true of Chicanos/as?
a. Most Chicanos/as speak Spanish as a native language.
b. The cultural traits often associated with Chicanos/as are also linked to socioeconomic status.
c. There is little diversity among Catholic Chicanos/as.
d. Chicanos/as can easily be identified since they look so different from other ethnic groups.
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Strength, a personality trait that involves ________, is helpful for cross-cultural adaptation.
a. stubbornness about cultural norms
b. flexibility in the host culture
c. commitment to the home culture
d. confidence about ones place in the host culture
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Which statement below is true of Saucedas argument about Isajiws five conditions for ethnic membership in reference to Chicanos/as?
a. Sauceda argues that Chicanos/as share a common religion only.
b. Sauceda argues that Chicanos/as share a common language and a common religion.
c. Sauceda argues that Chicanos/as share common culture and common race.
d. Sauceda argues that Chicanos/as do not meet any of the five conditions for ethnic membership.
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Which personality trait helps strangers adapt to a new culture by making them receptive to new information?
a. flexibility
b. strength
c. openness
d. positivity
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According to Isajiws research, which option below is one of the five conditions that ethnic membership requires?
a. common religion
b. common food preferences
c. common professions
d. common leisure activities
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Which type of competence allows strangers to choose verbal and nonverbal actions needed to engage in everyday interactions?
a. cognitive
b. affective
c. operational
d. ethnolinguistic
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Which term does Sauceda prefer to use in reference to Americans of Mexican descent?
a. Mexican American
b. Mexicano/a
c. Chicano/a
d. Hispanic
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Which type of competence allows strangers to empathize with natives in a host culture?
a. cognitive
b. affective
c. operational
d. ethnolinguistic
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Which stage in the development of white identity involves holding subtly racist viewswithout seeing oneself as racistand either avoiding racial issues altogether or adopting a patronizing stance towards people of color?
a. passive acceptance
b. active acceptance
c. resistance
d. no social consciousness
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What is host communication competence?
a. the ability to communicate appropriately while hosting guests at your home
b. the ability to communicate appropriately with strangers visiting your country
c. the ability to communicate appropriately in the manner used in your host country
d. A, B, and C are correct.
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Which stage in the development of white identity involves creating a new meaning for whiteness in nonracist terms?
a. redefinition
b. acceptance
c. resistance
d. no social consciousness
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When a person moves to a foreign country, they go through both ________, the process of learning new ways of thinking, feeling, and acting, and ________, the unlearning of some of their old cultural habits.
a. avowal; ascription
b. ascription; avowal
c. acculturation; deculturation
d. deculturation; acculturation
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What is the LAST stage in white identity development?
a. passive acceptance
b. no social consciousness
c. internalization
d. resistance
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According to Collier, which question should an intercultural communications researcher ask him/herself LAST?
a. What is the context of the intercultural problem?
b. How can I apply my interpretations?
c. What is my perspective on the data?
d. Why did I choose to study this particular intercultural issue?
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Which label has been successfully appropriated by a marginalized group?
a. redskins
b. Spanish
c. queer
d. Quaker
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The ________ perspective on communication is concerned with exploitation, power, and empowerment, and questions what we know and who we are as scholars and people.
a. critical deconstructivist
b. colonialist
c. conversational
d. cultural interpretivist
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What led white Americans and African Americans to view the O.J. Simpson trial with such very different attitudes?
a. The two groups had different opinions of the honesty of law enforcement.
b. The two groups had different ideas about the justifiability of murder.
c. The two groups had different evaluations of O.J. Simpsons character.
d. The two groups had different feelings about the role of the media in the legal system.
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The ________ perspective on communication involves believing that there is a material reality that can be observed and measured.
a. critical
b. postcolonialist
c. interpretive
d. positivist
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White people in America are not usually asked to speak for all white people, can be confident that if theyre nice, most people will be nice back to them, and can do well in a challenging situation without people considering them a credit to their race. These facts are due to which phenomenon?
a. white privilege
b. the rhetoric of whiteness
c. the whiteness standpoint
d. core symbols of whiteness
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A woman being in a situation where she is more aware of her gender than she usually is provides an example of the effect of ________ on cultural identities.
a. avowal
b. ascription
c. salience
d. endurance
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A(n) ________ cultural group is one that is specific and not normative, such as Irish American or Amish.
a. dominant
b. bounded
c. invisible
d. dynamic
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The term ________ refers to the interrelationships between cultural identities as sex, race, and class.
a. amae
b. interpellation
c. ascription
d. avowel
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Race is best seen as a ________ category.
a. biological
b. physiological
c. social
d. imaginary
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Which of the following is the basis of a cultural system?
a. professions
b. nationalities and ethnicities
c. gender
d. A, B, and C are true.
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Stereotypes of Native American Indians include all of the following EXCEPT______________.
a. Native American Indians are oblivious to pain.
b. Native American Indians worship the forces of nature.
c. Native American Indians worship the Great Spirit.
d. Native American Indians are Christians.
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In step two of Colliers ten steps, the researcher should identify a research question that ________.
a. can be answered with minimal data collection
b. can be answered through analysis of communication
c. is as broad as possible
d. is related to culture rather than identity
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Tribal identity is based on an adherence to and acceptance of the ________.
a. cultural practices of Native Americans as a whole
b. romanticized depictions of Native Americans in movies and books
c. Old West image of the Plains Indians
d. unique lifestyle of ones particular tribe
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Identifying with a group of people who also grew up in South Africa is an example of thinking of culture as ________.
a. product
b. performance
c. place
d. psychology and worldview
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Being Indian includes appropriately enacting the communicative behaviors of ________.
a. tribal-ness
b. Indian-ness
c. American-ness
d. Old West-ness
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Which statement below gives the best advice for individualists approaching intercultural conflict negotiation with collectivists?
a. Learn to more openly express points of view.
b. Use direct verbal messages to convey concern about a conflict.
c. Give the other party a way to extract him/herself from the conflict graciously if needed.
d. Use I statements to describe feelings.
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Which question below is more likely to be asked of Native Americans than of other ethnic groups?
a. Youre not a full blood, are you?
b. Where are you really from?
c. Are you an American?
d. Do you speak English?
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Which statement below is true?
a. In conflict among collectivists, the person who has more power is more likely to use silence as a cautionary conflict strategy.
b. In conflict among collectivists, people are more likely to use indirect verbal messages but very direct nonverbal communication strategies.
c. In conflict among individualists, people are not as likely to raise objections if they disagree with what the other party says.
d. In conflict among individualists, very indirect and cautionary nonverbal communication is heavily relied upon.
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In Taoism, the self is ________.
a. an illusion created out of ignorance
b. historically constructed rather than occurring naturally
c. considered unique and sovereign
d. identical with the universe
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In conflict situations, a person who is part of Australian culture is likely to use ________, while a person who is part of Japanese culture is likely to use ________ in their communication.
a. tangential responses; direct requests
b. indirect requests; upfront clarifications
c. direct verbal justifications; disclaimers
d. tag questions; qualifiers
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In Confucianism, the self is ________.
a. individualistic and unique
b. historically constructed rather than occurring naturally
c. relational and emerges only in the social presence of others
d. an illusion created out of ignorance
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In conflict negotiations in individualist cultures, power often means ________.
a. displaying petty-mindedness or benevolent generosity
b. possessing resources to punish or reward the other party
c. face loss and face gain
d. losing prestige or gaining prestige
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Which of the following religious traditions denies the existence of a self?
a. Buddhism
b. Confucianism
c. Taoism
d. Christianity
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Conflict issues in collectivist, high context cultures typically revolve around ________.
a. control of ones autonomy
b. ones freedom
c. being accepted by ones in-group members
d. ones personal territory
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From a Western perspective, the self is characterized as____________.
a. dichotomous and collective
b. egocentric and autonomous
c. ethnocentric and relational
d. subdued and harmonious
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Individualistic, low context people typically favor a ________ model for negotiating conflict.
a. relational harmony
b. facework negotiation
c. social balance
d. problem solving
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Which option below can be the basis of a cultural group?
a. ethnicity
b. gender
c. profession
d. A, B, and C are correct.
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For M-time people, ________.
a. conflict should be managed within a certain time frame
b. it is important to really know the people involved in a conflict
c. informal mediators are often called in to help resolve conflicts
d. there is no set schedule for resolving a conflicts
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The process of attributing an identity to an individual is known as ________.
a. avowal
b. ascription
c. amae
d. assimilation
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For someone from a collectivist, high context culture, negotiation resources in a conflict often revolve around ________.
a. individual pride
b. ego-based emotions
c. a sense of autonomy and power
d. face maintenance
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A ________ views identity as something that emerges when messages are exchanged between persons.
a. social perspective
b. psychological perspective
c. communication perspective
d. individual perspective
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People from individualist cultures tend to have an ________ construal of self.
a. interdependent
b. independent
c. episodic
d. in-group
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What are norms?
a. patterns of appropriate ways of communicating
b. identities that individuals choose for themselves
c. identities that are attributed to individuals by others
d. terms used to refer to cultural groups
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According to the ________ principle, as motivation, knowledge and skill increase, so do impressions of speaker competenceto a point, after which competence impressions decrease.
a. linearity
b. curvilinearity
c. cognitive prototype
d. maximization
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Imagine you want to justify your study of intercultural communication to a friend who doubts the value of such knowledge. Share at least five of Korzennys reasons why the study of culture and communication is important in order to convince your friend.
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The coordinative function of communication involves _________.
a. managing the flow of speaking turns
b. matching verbal and nonverbal components
c. producing speech acts such as asking questions
d. forming grammatical sentences
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What are the four major barriers that obstruct intercultural communication practice? Provide a brief explanation of each barrier.
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Which statement below refers to the individual system?
a. As actors communicative status increases, co-actors impression of actors competence increases.
b. Co-actors impression of actors competence is a function of actors fulfillment of co-actors expectancies.
c. As mutual trust increases, relational competence increases.
d. As communicator skills increase, communicator competence increases.
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Explain the five Asiacentric worldview communication propositions as proposed by Miike.
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According to Spitzberg, as conversational altercentrism ________, communicator skill ________.
a. increases; increases
b. increases; decreases
c. decreases; increases
d. decreases; remains steady
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In Miikes view, what are the three steps to cross-cultural dialogue?
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The ________ system includes the components that help someone be a competent intercultural communicator over time rather than in just a couple of situations.
a. individual
b. episodic
c. relational
d. maximizing
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What does Miike mean when he says that humanity is an expression of Eurocentrism?
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The _______ system of intercultural competence includes the personality features that allow a person to interact competently in intercultural contexts.
a. individual
b. episodic
c. relational
d. maximizing
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Explain Ishiis (1997) model of culture, giving examples of each layer of culture and discussing how the concept of worldview is connected.
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According to Spitzberg, the competence of a social behavior depends on ________.
a. the appropriateness in a given context
b. the effectiveness in a given context
c. intention and perception in a given context
d. A and B are true.
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Differentiate between learning about cultures and learning from cultures and discuss how the two approaches affect a persons understanding of other cultures.
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Explain how collectivism affects doctor-patient interactions in Argentina, Brazil, and India.
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According to Saint-Jacques, what are the four meanings of culture?
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According to Geist-Martin, what steps should health care providers take to increase their intercultural awareness?
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Explain the connection between language and culture and discuss how the differences in the personal pronouns systems of the worlds languages reveal cultural differences.
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What is one way that miscommunications occur when translators are involved in doctor-patient interactions?
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Discuss the three reasons why Saint-Jacques believes that the cultural dimensions of individualism and collectivism are flawed.
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Provide three examples from any of the readings of how intercultural miscommunications can occur in doctor-patient interactions.
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Identify and explain the three basic facts that Saint-Jacques argues are essential for any theory of culture.
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Discuss topic-centered and topic-associated or topic-chaining techniques as forms of discourse in the classroom.
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Identify and explain the eight major structural components in the framework of communication.
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Discuss some traditional womens ways of communicating and how they can be problematic for classroom teachers.
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Describe how beliefs, values, and attitudes are interrelated and their relation to communication.
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Compare and contrast call-response with rapport-talk.
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Identify, define, and give an example of each of the five characteristics of culture as explained by McDaniel and Samovar. Would you add a dimension that they do not include?
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Differentiate between passive-receptive and participatory-interactive styles of discourse.
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Describe how the mechanism of diffusion produces change in a culture.