Exam 2
What are the four narrative teaching functions?
1) our place in the world 2) how the world works 3) how to act in the world 4) how to evaluate the world in terms of good and bad
This worldview dimension answers the basic question of who am I? Am I an individual first or a member of a group first?
Collectivistic/Individualistic
How do you establish ethos?
Credibility, trustworthiness, using correct grammar, appropriate vocabulary
Bulletin boards and mass meetings of employees are techniques for improving what type of communication?
Downward communication
Put the following in order of media richness from highest to lowest: Email, video chat, face to face
Face to face, video chat, email
This refers to a system designed by management to dictate who should talk to whom.
Formal communication
Draw the u-curve model of cross cultural adjustment and name the stages.
Honeymoon, crisis/culture shock, adjustment, adaptation/acculturation
What is a value?
A belief about how the world should be.
What is a worldview?
A deeply felt assumption or basic premise about the way the world is
attitude
A person's general emotional response or feelings about an object, person, idea or action.
Idioms are an example of what?
A symbolic resource
What is a norm?
A typical behavior that conforms to and reinforces a sense of appropriateness.
A ritual
A what is a sequence of events that functions to celebrate an important cultural value or aspect?
5:1 ration of positive to negative during conflict
What do the three healthy couple types have in common?
When is guilt used effectively in persuasion?
What it is implicit and low/moderate
mean world syndrome
When watching the news makes us think the world is more dangerous than it is we are experiencing what?
What are the basic and clarifying questions of the high context/low context worldview dimension?
Where does meaning lie? Is meaning contextual or found primarily in the explicit verbal message?
Define Culture
a complex system of symbolic resources, worldviews, values and norms for the appropriate enactment of behavior.
Symbols are what in their meanings, this refers to the fact that there is no natural reason why a symbol needs to represent what it does?
arbitrary
This couple type accepts their partners as they are and compromises. They turn to areas of agreement. They like to agree to disagree. Their priority is solidarity, similarities, and partner needs
conflict avoiding
This refers to when a relatively large group of people agree a certain symbol will refer to a thought concept.
conventionality
The first stage of relational development:
itiating
Acculturation:
learning another's culture
Enculturation
learning one's own culture
This refers to an appeal of logic
logos
This refers to an appeal of emotion
pathos
This couple type values togetherness, companionship, cooperation, and respect for their partner's opinion.
validating
Thinking people should be honest is an example of what?
value
