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Culture and Intercultural Communication MCQ

Discussions of masculinity and femininity focus on ____________.

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Correct Answer: Gender

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A model of communication that puts the burden for effective communication primarily on the speaker is called __________.

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Correct Answer: Transmission Model of Communication

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___________ is a collective set of assumptions or expectations (that is, rules and norms that link the members).

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Correct Answer: System of Meaning

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Recursive means in speech crafting, this principle suggests that in generating a speech, you will bounce back.

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Correct Answer: True

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Public Advocacy means engaging the public through ___________ responsible communication toward an end that seeks a better world for our communities and our families.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Power is a productive tension resulting from our different locations within culture.

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Correct Answer: True

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Knowledge that there are choices present in any given moment is called ____________.

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Correct Answer: Informed Choice

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The process for generating public communication, our generation of that speech or writing will be somewhat distinct or unique for each of us is known as:

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Correct Answer: Idiosyncratic

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Cultural Location always, even subtly, mediated or sustained by power, this is an identity that is a way of seeing yourself within social categories, always in relation to each other.

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Correct Answer: True

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__________ is a system of shared meanings and assumptions that draw people together within a social context of shared power.

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Correct Answer: Culture

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A worldview or way of studying communication that requires careful analysis of power and commitment to social justice is known as:

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Correct Answer: Critical Paradigm

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Critical Inquiry means asking complicated questions and sorting out the implications of our in/actions.

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Correct Answer: True

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___________ is the act of making, of putting pieces together, to build our social lives through communication.

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Correct Answer: Construction

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Communication helps create us and what we think of as our realities (such as our social relationships, our sense of right and wrong, our belief that we can or cannot effect change in the world, and so forth).

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Correct Answer: Communication as Constitutive

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Communication is abstract or separate from our lives and the world around us:

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Correct Answer: Communication as Representation

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The collaborative construction and negotiation of meaning between the self and others as it occurs within cultural contexts is called ____________ .

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Correct Answer: Communication

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Cultural orientation in which an autonomous self is valued and the self is seen as different from and perhaps unequal to others is known as _______ .

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Correct Answer: Vertical individualism

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Vertical collectivism Cultural orientation in which the individual sees the self as an integral part of the in-group, but the members are different from one another .

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Correct Answer: True

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Uncertainty avoidance is the degree to which members of a particular culture feel threatened by _______ .

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Correct Answer: All of these

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The extent to which members of a culture expect and accept that power is unequally distributed is known as ______ .

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Correct Answer: Power distance

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Individualism is a cultural orientation in which the individual is _______ goals are emphasized over group goals.

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Correct Answer: Both a & b

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Value is a central organizing belief or belief system that shapes a person’s goals and motivations .

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Correct Answer: True

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Tribal sovereignty is an authority of tribes within the _______ to manage tribal affairs and tribal government limits .

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Correct Answer: United States

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A person, place, action, word, or thing that is used to represent something other than itself is known as _____ .

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Correct Answer: Symbol

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Subgroup is a group based on _______ that, like cultures, provide patterns of behavior and values .

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Subculture is a group within a ______ that shares distinctive cultural characteristics to distinguish it from others .

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Correct Answer: Larger society

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An idea he or she desires to communicate is known as ________

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Correct Answer: Source

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A term used to refer to horizontal stratification of people is known as _______ .

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Correct Answer: Social class

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A socially essential collective activity within a culture is known as ______ .

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Correct Answer: Ritual

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Reference group is a group to which one aspires to attain membership .

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Correct Answer: True

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Anything the receiver of a communication message does after having decoded the message is known as _______ .

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Correct Answer: Receiver response

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Someone who attends to a communication message is known as ______ .

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Correct Answer: Receiver

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A group who share some hereditary physical characteristics is known as _______ .

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Correct Answer: Race

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Noise is an ________ imitations on the effectiveness of communication

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Myth is a story with images representing a culture’s values .

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Correct Answer: True

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Microculture avoids the negative connotations of the terms _______ .

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Encoded ideas of the communication source are known as _____ .

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Correct Answer: Message

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Honorific used in some languages to show respect

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Correct Answer: True

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Hero is a _______ person who serves as a behavior model within a culture

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Correct Answer: Both a & b

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The portion of receiver response that a source attends to is known as _____ .

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Correct Answer: Feedback

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Ethnicity is ______ identified by shared descent and heritage

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Correct Answer: Both a & b

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Ethnic identity is an Identification with and perceived acceptance into an ethnic group .

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Correct Answer: True

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The process of putting the communication source’s ideas into symbols is known as ______ .

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Correct Answer: Encoding

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Decoding is the process of assigning meaning to symbols .

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Correct Answer: True

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Sum total of ways of living, including behavioral norms, linguistic expression, styles of communication, patterns of thinking is known as _______ .

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Correct Answer: Culture

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Identification with and perceived acceptance into a culture is known as ______ .

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Correct Answer: Cultural identity

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A membership group of people with rules, behaviors, and desires separate from the larger culture is known as _______ .

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Correct Answer: Counterculture

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Context is the _______ in which communication takes place

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Correct Answer: Both a & b

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Confucianism is an ethical system based on the teaching of Confucius, emphasizing personal ________ to family and society .

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Correct Answer: Both a & b

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Intentionally stimulating meaning in other humans through the use of symbols

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Correct Answer: Communication

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Co-culture is an _______ subculture within a society

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Correct Answer: Both a & b

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Channel means by which a message is transmitted .

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Correct Answer: True

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