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Cultural Communication MCQ

Which of the following organizational relationships is associated with high job satisfaction?

Employee exchange

Supervisory exchange

Leader-member exchange

Customer exchange

Answer

Correct Answer: Leader-member exchange

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Which of the following organizational relationships is associated with high job satisfaction?

Employee exchange

Supervisory exchange

Leader-member exchange

Customer exchange

Answer

Correct Answer: Leader-member exchange

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John and Toni are working on a team project. They believe the team’s collective success is more important than their individual recognition. John and Toni likely belong to what type of culture?

Individualistic

Collectivistic

Minimalistic

Intercultural

Answer

Correct Answer: Collectivistic

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Which of the following assumptions is part of anxiety/uncertainty management theory?

One communicator must be female for anxiety to be reduced.

Both communicators must be related by their family of origin.

One communicator is a stranger.

Both communicators must be involved in a romantic relationship.

Answer

Correct Answer: One communicator is a stranger.

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Josephine recently started a new job. Her boss holds a weekly team meeting so that all employees can contribute to the decision-making process. Josephine likely works in what type of power distance culture?

Low

High

Medium

Absent

Answer

Correct Answer: Low

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Janice and Tom are in the middle of a conflict. They decide to ask Ted for his help. This conflict resolution strategy is known as ______.

First-party help

Second-party help

Third-party help

Fourth-party help

Answer

Correct Answer: Third-party help

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Robert also is working on the same team as John and Toni. He disagrees. Robert thinks that his own success is more important than the team’s. Robert likely belongs to what type of culture?

Individualistic

Collectivistic

Minimalistic

Intercultural

Answer

Correct Answer: Individualistic

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What are two accommodation patterns?

Collectivistic and avoidant

Individualistic and minimalistic

Convergence and divergence

High and low

Answer

Correct Answer: Convergence and divergence

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Kate plays soccer every week as part of a community club. The members of this team have inside jokes. They also have jargon that people outside of the team do not understand. The members of the soccer team represent a(n) ______ group.

Out

Normalizing

Accenting

Answer

Correct Answer: In

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Sandra is preparing for an important presentation. She wants to appear confident in front of her co-workers. What term does Goffman use to describe one’s desired self-image?

Mirror image

Face

Ego

Explanatory potential

Answer

Correct Answer: Face

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Leader–Member Exchange is Relationships between a supervisor and employee characterized by mutual trust, social support, and liking.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Attributional Confidence is Appropriately discerning and reducing uncertainty about an interactional partner’s behavior.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Cultural preferences for the extent to which ambiguity is ––––––called uncertainty avoidance

Untolerated

Tolerated

Refuse

Reject

Answer

Correct Answer: Tolerated

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Uncertainty is term as –––––––––to explain or predict one’s own or others’ behavior.

Ability

Skill

Inability

None

Answer

Correct Answer: Inability

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Asking a person –––––of the relationship to help manage the conflict is called third party help.

Inside

Outside

Between

None

Answer

Correct Answer: Outside

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In –––––––––– exchange contractual obligations provided by the organization.

Nonmanagerial

Nonsupervisory

Supervisory

None

Answer

Correct Answer: Supervisory

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Stranger is Out-group member

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Stranger is Out-group member

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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––––––––––a cultural belief in immediate gratification.

Long term orientation

Short term orientation

Moderate term orientation

None

Answer

Correct Answer: Short term orientation

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Self face concern is the –––––– of one’s own positive and negative face needs.

Unaware

Aware

Oblivious

Ignorant

Answer

Correct Answer: Aware

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In positive aperson’s need to be

Liked

Appreciated

Admired

All

Answer

Correct Answer: All

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Passive aggression is more active than avoiding the situation altogether.

False

True

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Other face concern is ––––––––– an awareness of the other person’s positive and negative face needs.

Demonstrating

Presenting

Cover

Conceal

Answer

Correct Answer: Demonstrating

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Non accommodation is sucess to converge or diverge.

False

True

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Non accommodation is sucess to converge or diverge.

False

True

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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–––––––– a person’s desire to act freely, without constraints or imposition from others.

Positive Face

Moderate Face

Negative Face

None

Answer

Correct Answer: Negative Face

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Recognition of both self- and other-face need is –––––– face concern.

Individual

Mutual

Private

Public

Answer

Correct Answer: Mutual

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Mindfulness is thoughtful, conscious behavior.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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In masculine culture, cultural beliefs are the appropriate roles for men and women are ––––––.

Same

Distinct

Preferable

None

Answer

Correct Answer: Distinct

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Low power distance is a cultural belief that values the minimization of power differences.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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A cultural approach that is associated with thrift, savings, perseverance is known as

High context communication

Moderate context communication

Low context communication

None

Answer

Correct Answer: Low context communication

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Long term orientation is a cultural approach that is associated with…

Thrift

Savings

Perseverance

All

Answer

Correct Answer: All

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Liking is –––––––––––messages that stress affinity toward a person, place, or object.

Persuasive

Unconvinced

Uncomfortable

Wek

Answer

Correct Answer: Persuasive

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Intercultural communication is Interaction between members of –––––– cultures.

Same

Some

Different

None

Answer

Correct Answer: Different

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Intercultural adjustment is a cultural out-group member feels..

Emotionally secure

Socially appropriate

Communicatively competent

All of above

Answer

Correct Answer: All of above

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In-groups ––––––––affiliations to which an individual feels he or she belongs

Unsocial

Unfriendly

Recluse

Social

Answer

Correct Answer: Social

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–––––––––– is the belief that the individual is the essential unit of society

In-groups

Detachment

Individualism

Separatism

Answer

Correct Answer: Individualism

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In high power difference cultural beliefs; power differences are viewed as

Natural

Unnatural

Inevitable

A & C

Answer

Correct Answer: A & C

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High-Context Communication are messages that privilege

Relational harmony

Clarity

Directness

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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The cultural belief that norms for behavior should not be determined by biological sex is known as

Feminine culture

Masculine culture

Neutral culture

None of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Feminine culture

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Face refers to the undesired public image

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Emotionally Expressive is an affective response to conflict as opposed to a

Ineffective response

Cognitive response

Selective response

Emotional response

Answer

Correct Answer: Cognitive response

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Communication that assists the communicator in achieving his or her goals is known as

Emotional communication

Effective communication

Fair communication

Selective communication

Answer

Correct Answer: Effective communication

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Divergence is ___________ from a partner by seeking to engage in speech and behavioral patterns different from that of the partner.

Isolating

Loss Of communication

Differentiating

A & B

Answer

Correct Answer: Differentiating

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Altering speech and behavior so it matches that of the conversational partner is known as

Convergence

Divergence

Merging

Dialectic

Answer

Correct Answer: Convergence

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Communal-Face concern refers to managing __________ needs when challenged by an out-group.

In-group communication

Inter-groups communication

Inter-group identities

In-group identity

Answer

Correct Answer: In-group identity

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Communal face concern is –––––––– in-group identity needs when challenged by an out-group

Compromising

Arranging

Managing

Providing

Answer

Correct Answer: Managing

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Competing is Seeking a win-lose solution.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Avoidance is refusing to enact a ––––––– that might be considered face threatening.

Response

Inertia

Behavior

Attitude

Answer

Correct Answer: Behavior

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Anxiety is an emotional state of

Apprehension

Worry

Fear of negative consequences

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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Adjusting one’s speech and/or conversational patterns is known as––––––––.

Accommodation

Anxiety

Refusal

Disagreement

Answer

Correct Answer: Accommodation

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Accommodating is cooperating with others but demonstrating little assertiveness

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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