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Intercultural communication
1st test
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Communication
Undergraduate 1
03/03/2016

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The descriptive approach to communication competence defines competence as communication that is
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Appropriate and effective
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in order to be a competent communicator, I need to be aware of the cultural norms for a specific situation. According to the prescriptive approach to competence, this is called
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Kate wants to evaluate whether Maria's communication is competent. Which approach to communication competence will be most helpful to her?
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Descriptive approach
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Rosa wants to study abroad in China next semester. What motive best explains why Rosa would take an intercultural communication course?
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Cross cultural travel
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Saul wants to learn more about himself and better understand his own culture. What motive best explains why Saul decided to take an intercultural ccommunication course?
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Personal growth
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Communication is appropriate when it follows _______ and effective when it achieves ______.

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Norms; goals
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Culture
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the way of life a group of people, including symbols, values behaviors, artifacts, and other aspects
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Communication
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the process of creating and sending symbolic behavior, and the interpretation of behavior between people
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Intercultural communication
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occurs when culture impacts the communication between two or more people enough to make a difference
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Personal growth motive
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worldmindedness, self-awareness, and personal empowerment
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Social responsibility motive
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the responsibility to live together peaceably and ethically
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cross-cultural travel motive
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international travel
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refugee
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someone who has traveled outside of his or her country because of a fear of threat to freedom or life based on reasons of group belonging
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asylum seeker
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seeking legal protection from the new state, rather than simply moving there because of conditions of strife
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media motive
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We are consumers and producers of mediated messages that travel across cultural borders
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framework for space usage?
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proxemics
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framework for time usage?
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chronemics
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high culture
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activities and expressions that represent what people believed to be moral and intellectual refinement
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low, or popular culture
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everday activities and expressions of people
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message
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set of symbols- words, sounds, or images -placed together to represent some meaning
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process
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how it is intended, sent recieved, and interpreted
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Transmitter
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A device or instrument, including media or human voice and body, that we use to transfer symbols to represent some meaning
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Channel
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The medium through which a message travels from an information source to a destination
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Receiver
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A device or instrument through which a destination source decodes or interprets a signal received from an information source
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Noise
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interference with the passing of the message through the channel
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Enculturation
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people or processes that teach one the culture
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Acculturation
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the process of learning another culture
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Deculturation
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the unlearning of ones own culture
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Diffusion
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spread of artifact,behavior, and ideas across a group or culture
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Hybridity
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cultural blending
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Race
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biological difference between groups
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Ethnicity
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a sense of shared history and geographica ancestry, usually along with other markers, like culture, language, religion
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Symbolic ethnicity
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assimilate to the dominant culture but still use symbols
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Ethnocentrism
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the belief that our culture or group is better than others
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Intercultural communication
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communication in which cultural differences are large enough to impact the production or consumption of messages
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Subjective culture
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elements of a culture such as beliefs, attitude, norms, and worldview shared by a group of people
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Objective culture
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which refers to artifacts that a culture produces
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Beliefs
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Assumptions about the nature of something
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World view
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Beliefs about the connections between humans and the larger elements of the universe
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Cultural values
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Held by the majority of members of a cultural group rather than individual values
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Attitude
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Describes the way we relate to things,actors, or people
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Rules
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Things that we can or cannot should or should not do
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Norms
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Expectations for behavior with a moral component
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More
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is the norm is very strong with negative results for violating it
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Taboo
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cultural more so strong people do not normally mention it
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Law
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when the government legalizes what one can or cannot do in terms of behavior
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universal values
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A set of values that some reseachers suggest  exist in all cultures to some degree
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Terminal values
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Represent the end states or desire outcomes  of action for individuals
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Instrumentall values
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Characteristics traits or molds of conduct that  people in a cultural hold to be important for reaching societal goals
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High-context cultures
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Cultures in which meeaning tend to be implicit
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Low-contex culture
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Place more people might assume meaning
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Power distance
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Weather people in a culture tens of values status difference and see it as appropriate
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Uncertainty avoidance
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overall desire for structure and predictability in a culture
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Individualism/ collectivism (I/C)
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The links between the person and his or her social network
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Confucian work dynamism
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a long term pragmatism that values education and hard work
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Self construal
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Physiological notion of  how strongly one sees one's individual independent from others or connected to others to individualism /collectivism
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etic approach
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A set of terms or a theory that researchers develop from outside of any cultural system allowing them to compare cultures
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Emic approach
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understand the culture in its own Terms
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Social capital
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The sense of an involvement in one community
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ethnography of communication
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A method of research and writing that detailing observing usually involves interaction with people to understand the lives of a group
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Speech code
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System of symbols assumption and norms for communication adopted by a group of people
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Speech community
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specific people that share a speech code
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Guilt culture
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Motivated by a sense of remorse when they engage in bad social behavior
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Shame culture
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Motivated by a sense of social obligation
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Secular culture
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Life's problems and solutions are seen in terms of science in human ideas
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Classification
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how we are understood by some social categories
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Stereotype
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Oversimplified often unvarying attribute assigned to a group of people or a person because the person is a member of a group
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Personal identities
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Our concept of ourselves as unique individual
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Social identities
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Our self perception in terms of rolls relationships that we belong to
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Identity politics
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Practice of a lame claim to an identity in order to help also's integrate into our community and fit into parts of our social world
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ideology
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System of meanings
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Othering
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Excluding the rendering other people based on some identity that they hold as inferior or alien
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Orientalism
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And ideology in the west by which orient becomes a mirror image of what is inferior an alien to the west
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Symbolic annihilation of race
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When groups a coaches are under represented or represented in trouble some manners especially in media
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