Exam 5: Intercultural Development: Considering the Growth of Self and Others

According to Bennett, who proposed the developmental model of intercultural sensitivity (DMIS), as people's ability to understand difference increases, so does their ability to negotiate a variety of worldviews.

Interculturally competent people have a hard time communicating effectively across cultures.

Bennett's developmental model of intercultural sensitivity (DMIS) provided a framework for understanding intercultural development and awareness along a continuum from:

Behavioral adaptation refers to the internalization of more than one complete worldview.

In which of the following stages of the developmental model of intercultural sensitivity (DMIS) does the inability to see cultural differences occur?

In the context of the stages of the developmental model of intercultural sensitivity, when one accepts superficial cultural differences but asserts that people are more alike than they are different, one is in the:

Early studies in intercultural competence suggested that effectively working across cultures means that:

Denigration is a type of defense that may occur in the denial stage of the developmental model of intercultural sensitivity (DMIS).

Consider a situation where a teacher visits France along with the students of his/her French class. How might the teacher help his/her students who are in the minimization stage of the developmental model of intercultural sensitivity (DMIS) move to the acceptance stage of the DMIS? List four possible steps you would advise him/her to take.

The stage of the developmental model of intercultural sensitivity (DMIS) in which people begin to see cultural categories as more flexible and become more competent in their ability to communicate across cultures is known as:

All of the following are examples of interculturally competent skills, EXCEPT:

In general, an increase in cultural awareness is accompanied by a(an):

During the adaptation stage of the developmental model of intercultural sensitivity, an individual is able to:

List the areas of defense that Bennett mentioned in the developmental model of intercultural sensitivity (DMIS). Give examples that depict each area of defense using characters from movies, literature, or television. Give a brief explanation of why you chose your examples.

People at the defense stage of the developmental model of intercultural sensitivity (DMIS) prefer to separate themselves from others because they often do not have categories for dealing with difference.

Discuss Deardorff's Pyramid Model of Intercultural Competence.

Which of the following would be considered an ethnocentric stage according to Bennett's developmental model of intercultural sensitivity (DMIS)?

In which of the following stages of the developmental model of intercultural sensitivity (DMIS) is an individual's understanding of cultural difference minimal?

In which of the following stages of the developmental model of intercultural sensitivity (DMIS) does a recognition of cultural difference coupled with negative evaluations of those whose culture is different from one's own and superior judgments of one's own culture occur?

In the context of the stages of the developmental model of intercultural sensitivity, briefly discuss the types of adaptation.