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Example behaviours
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In these societies, stress is on personal responsibility and achievement.
What are individualistic societies?
100
If you have it, you are able to communicate effectively and appropriately.
What is communicative competence?
100
These are adjectives that describe culture.
What are: learned, adaptive, dynamic, shared, transmittable?
100
What are three out of the six tendencies that influence our perception?
What are (judging ourselves more charitably than others, being influenced by expectations, being influenced by the obvious, clinging to first impressions, assuming others are like us, and favouring negative impressions?)
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If individuals do not mind changing jobs, they belong to a culture that has ......
What is a weak uncertainty avoidance?
200
The extent to which the less powerful members of organizations and institutions in a culture accept and expect whether power is distributed equally or unequally.
What is power distance?
200
The ability to put oneself in someone else's position and experience their feelings.
What is empathy?
200
They are two tools that improve our perception of others.
What are perception checking and building empathy?
200
They are the three requirements for empathy.
What are open-mindedness, imagination and commitment?
200
If individuals have an emotional need for rules even if they are not obeyed, they belong to a culture that has ....
What is strong uncertainty avoidance?
300
In these communication systems, a large part of the meaning lies in the physical context (facial expressions, tone, gestures).
What are high-context cultures?
300
Making exaggerated generalizations about a specific group.
What is stereotyping?
300
They are the three parts of perception checking.
What describing the behaviour, providing two possible interpretations of the behaviour, requesting clarification about the behaviour?
300
These are visible aspects of culture. (Remember the iceberg)
What are arts, food, dress style, body language, and rituals?
300
In a culture which has -----, parents treat children as equals.
What is small power distance?
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The belief that one's culture is superior to another culture.
What is ethnocentrism?
400
Our tendency to attribute a problem to people's personal qualities- not outside factors.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
400
Direct perception checking may not work very well in these types of cultures.
What are high-context cultures?
400
These are invisible aspects of culture. (Remember the iceberg)
What are beliefs and values (about self-religion-society-time)?
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In a society where education is teacher-centered, ______ is large.
What is power distance?
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It is the power of first impressions to influence subsequent impressions.
What is the halo effect?
500
The Greek roots for this word mean "feeling with".
What is "sympathy"?
500
They are the three stages of human perception.
What are selection, organization and interpretation?
500
They are different types of nonverbal behaviour that influence how we interact with others.
What is vocalics, linesics, oclesics, proxemics, chronemics?
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In this communication style, praise is presented in repetitious and figurative language.
What is an elaborate communication style?