A theory in which the major premise is that when strangers first meet, their primary goal is to reduce uncertainty
What is Uncertainty Reduction Theory
100
Communicative strategies employed to manage one’s own face or to support or challenge another’s facer self-face
What is Facework
100
An organized pattern of values, beliefs, behaviors, and communication channels held by the members of an organization
What is Organizational Culture
100
Predisposition to initiate intercultural interaction with persons from different cultures, even when completely free to choose whether or not to communicate
What is Intercultural Willingness to Communicate
100
Chapter 9: An individual’s ability to be sensitive to the communication of others, including providing feedback, engaging in comforting communication, and listening
What is Responsiveness
200
An individual’s ability to make requests, actively disagree, and express positive or negative personal rights and feelings
What is Assertiveness
200
A _____ strategy to resolve conflict is used when one coerces another into compliance.
What is Forcing
200
The study and use of communication strategies to inform and influence individual decisions that enhance health
What is Health Communication
200
The effects associated with the tension and anxiety of returning to one’s native culture after an extended stay in a foreign culture
What is Reentry Shock
200
Chapter 10: With this conflict-resolution strategy, one of the conflicting parties simply adopts or cooperates with the position of the opposition.
What is Accommodation
300
That which is created when a dyad consisting of persons from different cultures comes together and establishes relational empathy
What is Third Culture
300
Concern for another’s image during communication, especially conflict
What is Other-face
300
An individual’s unique way of gathering, storing, and retrieving information to solve problems
What is Learning Styles
300
The degree of physical and psychological stress persons experience when they enter a culture different from their own as a result of the adaptation required to function in a new and different cultural context
What is Acculturative Stress
300
Chapter 12: The degree to which an individual takes on the behaviors and language habits and practices the basic rules and norms of the host culture while relinquishing ties with the native culture
What is Assimilation
400
Shared meaning and harmonization that is the result of the interaction of two people
What is Relational Empathy
400
Communicative behaviors that allow for the shared concern for self- and other-face and strive for closure during communication or conflict
What is Integrating Facework
400
The physical and psychological distance/closeness between interactants
What is Immediacy
400
Mode of acculturation in which the individual develops a kind of bicultural orientation that successfully blends and synthesizes cultural dimensions from both groups while maintaining an identity in each group
What is Integration
400
Chapter 11: The attitudes, emotions, and motivations of the persons engaged in communication and how they affect information processing
What is Perceptual Context
500
A theory developed to explain the interrelationships among uncertainty, anxiety, mindfulness, and communication effectiveness
What is Anxiety/Uncertainty Management Theory
500
This strategy to resolve conflict is defined by one’s use of information, logic, or emotional appeals to influence another
What is Education/Persuasion
500
The geographical and psychological location of communication within some cultural context
What is Environmental Context
500
The extent to which one can translate cultural knowledge into verbal and nonverbal performance and role enactment
What is Psychomotor Component
500
Chapter 12: The extent of one’s awareness of another culture’s values and so forth; also, the extent to which one is cognitively simple, rigid, and ethnocentric