Exam 6: Adapting to Others: Diversity and Communication

The sense of confusion, anxiety, stress, or loss experienced when encountering a culture different from one's own is referred to as _____.

Cultures that tend to have equal distribution of authority and control have a decentralized approach to power.

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

Explain and give examples for two of the barriers to effective intercultural communication.

Which of the following is a characteristic of a culture that has a greater tolerance for uncertainty?

Stereotyping is the judgment of others based on the assumption that we already know all we need to know.

Stephanie felt uncomfortable when she gave her first speech in class. She was the only African American in her class; all the other students were white. She had been raised in a neighborhood in St. Louis that was predominantly African American, and she was accustomed to frequent audience responses that meant involvement with and support of the speaker. Before her second speech, she continually told herself, "They don't mean to be rude or disinterested, they just have different cultural rules for appropriate behavior during a speech." Stephanie was using which method of adapting to the audience?

Cultures that value having power in the hands of a smaller number of people accept an approach to power known as _____.

Which of the following is a characteristic of a culture that values a decentralized approach to power?

The term often used to describe people born between 1943 and 1960 is_____.

Cultures that tend to be future-oriented and value perseverance and thrift are said to have a _____ orientation to time.

A judgment based on the assumption that we already know all the information we need to know about a person is called _____.

Being _____ is to be aware of what you are doing and how you are communicating with others.

A co-culture is a group that lives near, but not in, a larger culture.

A masculine-based culture is typically less assertive than a feminine-based culture.

Globalization is the spread of one culture around the globe.

Briefly explain an ethnorelative cultural perspective.

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

People born between 1982 and 2002 are known as _____.

Explain how ethnicity and race are related but different.