CAS 271 Lesson 2 Quiz

Which methods are primarily used in the critical approach to intercultural communication? a. field studies and observations b. questionnaires and observations c. text and media analyses d. interviews and experiments

c. text and media analyses

Which of the following is true about the development of the intercultural communication area of study? a. It originated with scholars looking for practical answers to help overseas workers. b. This area of study is almost the same as the research done in the field of sociology. c. It began as a result of people's displeasure over the foreign relations concerning the Vietnam conflict. d. The primary goal of scholars was to develop theories that described intercultural communication processes.

a. It originated with scholars looking for practical answers to help overseas workers.

Which of the following approaches to intercultural communication views reality as external to humans? a. social science b. interpretive c. critical d. none of the above

a. social science

Worldviews are

assumptions about the nature of reality and human behavior.

How did E. T. Hall contribute to the origins of intercultural communication? a. Hall developed technology that increased our ability to communicate with people in other cultures. b. Hall explored the relationship between a person's national identity and values orientations. c. Hall helped describe the relationship between language learning and conflict. d. Hall identified and wrote about cultural differences in nonverbal communication.

c. Hall helped describe the relationship between language learning and conflict.

Which approach to intercultural communication has the goal of initiating social change? a. social science b. interpretive c. critical d. none of the above

c. critical

Which of the following is NOT true about dialectical perspective? a. This approach emphasizes the processual character of understanding intercultural communication. b. The dialectical perspective involves holding contradictory ideas simultaneously. c. The dialectical perspective emphasizes the relational aspect of intercultural communication study. d. The dialectical perspective emphasizes the static and objective aspects of intercultural communication.

d. The dialectical perspective emphasizes the static and objective aspects of intercultural communication.

The goals for the social science approach are to ____ a. understand and describe human behavior. b. understand human behavior and change it. c. predict and change human behavior. d. describe and predict human behavior.

d. describe and predict human behavior

The study of how people use personal space is called

proxemics.

The process of perpetuating cultural patterns is called _____

social reproduction