Communication
Culture
Identity
Values
Language
100
List the four principles of communication.
What is Dynamic, Symbolic, Contextual, and Self-reflective
100
What is informally learned through folk tales, legends, myths, art, and mass media?
What is culture
100
Saying you are "black" or "white" is an example of which type of identity?
What is racial identity
100
The means by which you make sense of your physical and social world is called:
What is perception
100
Scholars refer to the difference in the pronunciation of words as differences in:
What is accent
200
List the three functions of communication.
What are to fullfill interpersonal needs, to establish personal identity, and to influence others.
200
When talking about culture, values that are deeply felt and that endure through time are referred to as what? Example: The value of freedom of speech vs. the value of shaking hands with someone upon meeting
What are deep structure values
200
Saying you are "Midwestern" or "urban" is an example of which type of identity?
What is regional identity
200
What are the three ways we classify beliefs?
What are primary, secondary, and tertiary
200
Differences in vocabuary, grammar, and punctuation are referred to as differences in:
What is dialect Daily Double: What is one known dialect?
300
What does the book say "carry truths and insights of a culture"?
What are proverbs
300
What is the difference between an individualistic culture and a collectivist culture?
What is an individualistic culture will value independence, pioneering, the "self-made man;" collectivist cultures will value group harmony, doing it together, working as a team
300
The notion that one's culture is superior to any other is referred to as:
What is ethnocentrism
300
Explain high-power distance vs. low-power distance value, and give an example of a culture that subscribes to each.
What is high-power distance cultures are OK with a large gap between the decision-makers and the non-decisiomakers (Mexico); low-power distance cultures are not OK with the gap and tend to argue more (U.S.)
300
What three cultural vales do we see reflected in the language that memebers of any given culture use?
What are high/low context, high/low power distance, and individualism/collectivism. Daily Double: Give an example of how language changes in these three values.
400
A culture that often says, "Strike while the iron is hot," might value what?
What is time/immediacy/urgency
400
The most basic unit of society is:
What is the family
400
This type of social identity derives from a sense of shared history, traditions, values, similar behaviors, area of origin, and in some instances, languages.
What is ethnic identity
400
Explain low-context cultures vs. high-context cultures, and give an example for each.
What is low-context cultures leave a lot of communication up to nonverbal communication; a lot of reading between the lines (Japan). High-context cultures are more direct, explicit, frank (U.S.).
400
Kinesic cues in nonverbal communication that you should pay attention to are:
What are visible body shifts and movements
500
Define "intercultural communication" (according to the book).
What is (in part) "interaction between people whose cultural perceptions and symbol systems are distinct enough to alter the communication event"
500
What is stereotyping, what purpose does it serve, and what FOUR THINGS should individuals remember when doing it?
What is a means of categorizing people based on the culture they belong to, and it helps us order our world; however, cultural genearlizations are not absolute representations of every member of said culture; when generalizations are made, they should deal with "core values," conclusions should be qualified,and statements should be qualified
500
What are the four normal phases of identity development?
What are unexamined identity, acceptance, resistance, redefinition/reintegration
500
Human nature orientation reflects a culture's perspective on:
What is good and evil. Daily double: Give an example of two cultures that hold opposite values in this area.
500
Give two different cultural explanations for the nonverbal gesture of nodding one's head up and down.
What is in the U.S., it is a sign of acceptance. In Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Turkey, it can mean "no." Native American cultures, Middle Eastern cultures, Pacific Island groups
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