4.1 Understanding Cultures and Cocultures
Define intergroup communication.
What is interaction between members of different cultures or cocultures?
Define power distance.
What is the degree to which members of a group are willing to accept a difference in power and status?
Define imaginary audience.
What is a heightened self-consciousness that makes it seem as if people are observing and judging you?
Define communication.
What is the process of creating meaning through symbolic interaction?
What is the attachment of meaning to behavior?
Difference between in-group and out group.
What is a group to whom you belong VS anyone not belonging to your group?
The 4 sets of cultural values.
Influences on perception examples.
Importance of intrapersonal communication.
What is enhancing self-awareness, improving decision-making, reducing stress and anxiety, etc.?
Example of the perceptual tendency to overgeneralize based off of one good action.
Relationship between culture and coculture.
What is language, values, beliefs & traditions, VS. the perception of membership in that group.
Priorities of collectivist cultures.
What is community, harmony, and the wellbeing of others?
The differing views on silence.
What is embarrassing and awkward (West) VS. respectful and proper (East)?
Types of noise in communication.
What is physiological, psychological, physical, and semantic noise?
Empathy VS. Sympathy.
What is understanding of VS. compassion towards another persons situation?
Features of cocultures.
What is age, race, sexuality, language, religion, activity, physical abilities?
Examples of countries with high context cultures.
What are Asian, Latin, and Middle Eastern countries?
List one tendency of perception.
What is self-serving bias, first impressions, categorization, overgeneralizing, draw towards familiar, negative impressions over positive, etc?
Relationship between self concept and behavior.
What is Communication style -> Behavior -> Others responses -> Perception?
Means of sorting/making sense of stimuli.
What is section, organization, and interpretation?
(Open)A group of preschool children is playing together in a park. It does not matter to them that their parents come from different countries.
High uncertainty avoidance described.
What is taking fewer risks and having many laws and principles to govern?
List main groups with which people identify.
What is race and ethnicity, region, gender, sexuality, religion, political viewpoints, ability/disability, age/generation?
Main difference between the linear and transactional models of communication.
What is transactional involves the continuous exchange of messages?
An example of a self fulfilling prophecy.
(Open) Ex. Thinking someone is rude before them, and then picking out all their rude behaviors when meeting.