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