Exam 1: Culture and Communication

Research that follows the positivist paradigm produces studies that can be replicated.

Define and discuss culture,using the definition from the textbook,and explain what culture is and what it does. Furnish examples.

You are born with your culture in your genes.

A schema is a mental representation about something such as a culture.

What is culture shock? Explain the four stages in culture shock and also touch upon reverse culture shock.

The belief that everyone who encounters my culture will want to adopt it is an assumption of my culture's superiority.

When biases are acted upon,

The idea that everyone underneath is just the same after all is helpful to business communication.

Eventually,with the spread of technology,everyone will have the same culture.

Cultural Intelligence is part of the procedural toolkit of spies in foreign countries.

The study of communication across cultures began

Attitudes are the same thing as values.

Biases are

If you know what your own culture believes is normal and natural,you will be able to figure out where other people's ideas are different.

One response to an unfamiliar culture is curiosity.

Cross-cultural communication involves a comparison of communication styles while intercultural communication involves what happens when people from different cultures communicate.

Culture,for purposes of business communication,is:

Explain intercultural business communication through two models,one showing the role of perception and one showing how communicators actually use schema or projections they create of the other culture in their communication.

Reverse culture shock is the term given to the adjustment following re-entry into one's own culture after living abroad.

Positivist research