Exam 6: Adapting to Others: Diversity and Communication

A learned system of knowledge, behavior, attitudes, and norms shared by a group of people is a(n) _____.

Cultural context refers to additional information about a message that is provided through _____ cues.

Stephanie felt uncomfortable after she gave her first speech in class. She was accustomed to frequent audience responses that signaled involvement with and support of the speaker. Before her second speech, she continually told herself, "They don't mean to be rude, they just have different rules for appropriate behavior during a speech." Stephanie was using which method of adapting to the audience?

People from _____ cultures tend to place a high value on freedom of speech, leisure activities, and sports.

According to Hofstede's research, which of the following is a typical value of a masculine culture?

In an individualist culture you are likely to find _____.

In a restrained culture, most people assume that happiness is a right.

_____ is the process of feeling an emotional reaction that is similar to the reaction being experienced by another person.

The perceptions shared by a group of people about their key beliefs and issues are called their _____.

A person's racial classification was originally based on _____, which are visible physiological attributes such as skin color.