Exam 5: D: Nonverbal Communication

Communication researchers have found that even people from very different cultures have nearly identical expectations when they communicate.

The generation into which a person is born can have a significant impact on his or her attitudes and behaviors.

The phrases "make time" and "buy time" are indicative of a polychronic time culture.

Culture is synonymous with ethnicity or nationality.

Rules about where, when, and how to express emotions vary from one culture to another.

Although you may not interact with many new people in person, you most likely communicate with new people at least occasionally through media.

An individual in a low power distance culture is less likely to feel anxiety when talking to someone of higher status than an individual from a high power distance culture would.

Effective intercultural communication often requires us to accommodate-to adapt our verbal and nonverbal behaviors toward others to facilitate understanding and create a feeling of convergence.

It is common for people to feel anxiety when engaged in intercultural communication.

The United States and Canada would be classified as high uncertainty avoidance cultures.

Collectivist cultures tend to be governed by a clear sense of status and hierarchy and tend to prize loyalty.

Our culture is reflected as well as affected by our communication behaviors.

Gender and biological sex are basically the same thing.

One of the best ways to reduce one's uncertainty and anxiety about interacting with people from other social groups and cultures is to take the opportunity to interact with diverse groups of people in our social, educational, and professional lives.

Stereotypical beliefs about and attitudes toward others may lead us to interact with them in such a way that we set them up to prove our perceptions true.

In order to avoid ethnocentrism we must resist the tendency to feel national pride.

People from individualist cultures are prone to hyperbole when describing their emotional response to events.

People from low-context cultures use cues like the time, place, relationship, and situation to interpret messages and send subtle messages.

People within a co-cultural group tend to communicate in the same style.