Exam 2 Review Flashcards

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Culture

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A group of people who, through a process of learning are able to share perspectives of the world that influence their beliefs, values, norms, and rules, which eventually. affects their behavior.

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When we talk about culture…

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we are talking about a group of people.

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We learn…

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about our culture.

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What we learn about our culture…

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ultimately leads to a shared perception of the world.

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Beleifs

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Assumptions and convictions held by an individual group or culture about the truth or existence of something.

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The culture we are raised in will teach us…

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our beliefs, values, norms, and rules.

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Values

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Important and lasting principles strongly held by a culture about desirable courses of action or outcomes.

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Norms

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Informal guidelines about what is acceptable or proper social behavior within a specific culture

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Rules

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Explicit guidelines that govern proper social behavior within a specific culture.

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Co-Cultures

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Regional, economic, social, religious, ethnic, and other groups that exert influence in a society.

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The larger culture often…

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coopts parts of a co-culture and tries to adapt it into the main stream.

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World mindedness

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Ability to accept and respect others’ cultures, beliefs, values, and customs.

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Ethnocentrisim

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The belief that your culture, beliefs, values, and customs are superior to others.

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Intercultural Competence

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The ability to communicate appropriately, effectively, and ethically with a person of a different culture.

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Prejudice

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Opinion of a group of people that is often untrue and unjust.

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Face

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The respectability and/or deference of a person in relation to their social network, functionality in society, general conduct, their actions, and social expectations placed upon them.

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Cultural Intelligence

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An individual’s ability to function effectively in situations characterized by cultural diversity.

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Low vs. High Power Disance

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The degree to which people and organizations with less power within a culture accept and expect that power is unequally distributed within their culture.

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Individualism

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Individualist culture believes that you should focus on yourself and what you want to do.

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Collectivisim

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Collectivist culture believes that you should focus on what is best for the collective and what the collective wants.

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Masculine Culture

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Men are tough and strong. Women are modest and tender.

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Low vs. High Uncertainty Avoidance

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The degree to which a group of people will tolerate ambiguity or a lack of knowledge.

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Feminine Culture

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Men and women are tender and modest.

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Long-term orientated culture

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Focused on the future.

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Short-term orientated culutre
Focused on the past and present.
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Indulgent Culutre
Generally allows free gratification of a person's wants and natural human desires.
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Restraint Culture
Believes that a person's wants and natural human desires should be curbed and regulated
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How many types of conversation?
four
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Discourse
One-way cooperative: The purpose is for the sender to transmit information to the receiver.
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Dialouge
Two-way cooperative: The goal is for participants to exchange information and build relationships with each other.
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Debate
Two-way competitive : The goal is to win an argument or to persuade somone.
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Diatribe
One-way competitive: The goal is to express emotions, verbally beatdown those who disagree with you, and/or inspire those who agree with you.
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Communication needs
Physical, Identity, Social
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Physical Communication Needs
Communicating openly about our needs, wants, thoughts, and problems helps improve physical health.
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Identity Communication Needs
Communication we receive about ourselves from others influences the way we perceive ourselves.
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Social Communication Needs
We communicate with others to initiate, maintain, and terminate relationships.
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Social Penetration Theory
Relationships begin when individuals share non-intimate layers and move into more intimate layers of personal information.
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Open Self
Information about ourselves known to us and to others.
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Hidden Self
Information about ourselves known to us but not to others.
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Blind Self
What others know about us that we don't know.
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Unknown Self
Information about ourselves not known to us and not known to others.
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Hearing
A passive activity where an individual perceives sound by detecting vibrations through an ear.
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Listening
Focused, concentrated attention for the purpose of understanding the meaning expressed by the source.
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Step 1 of Listening
Hearing: Receiving some kind of communicated message.
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Step 2 of Listening
Understanding: Comprehending and decoding the received message.
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Step 3 of Listening
Remembering: Actually remembering the message that was sent.
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Step 4 of Listening
Interpreting: Being sensitive to nonverbal cues as they relate to the message sent.
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Step 5 of Listening
Evaluating: Judging the message itself whilst trying to avoid the influences of our biases, values, and beliefs.
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Step 6 of Listening
Responding: How we respond to the message itself.
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Gender Differences in Listening & Responding
Men are clear and direct, often missing nonverbal cues. Women are less clear and less direct, more concerned with the underlying message.
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People Listener
More focused on the person sending the message rather than the content of the message.
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Action Listener
Focused on what the source wants and problem-solving.
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Content Listener
Focus on the content of the message and process the message in a systematic way.
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Time Listener
Only able to listen for a specific amount of time, often struggles to pay attention because of multitasking.
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Work Relationship
Relationships that help us advance professional careers, support financial gain, and provide better work opportunities.
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Task Relationships
We need to accomplish something with this person, relationship often ends after task is completed.
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Social Relationship
We are seeking pleasure, inclusion, control, affection, looking for friends or love
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Reasons for Attraction: Physical Proximity
We are in the same space with this person regularly or often, leading to attraction.
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Reasons for Attraction: Physical Attractiveness
We are drawn to people who are physically attractive or who have aesthetically pleasing features.
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Reasons for Attraction: Perceived Gain
Looking for a relationship that will reward us, the reward can be monetary, social, or even just companionship.
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Reasons for Attraction: Similarities and Differences
Some people look for those who are similar to them. Some people look for those who are different form them.
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Reasons for Attraction: Disclosure
Sharing important and deep information about ourselves to build support and trust.
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Coming Together: Initiating
Beginning of Relationship: Determining interest and making direct contact with someone.
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Coming Together: Experimenting
Deciding to continue the relationship, learning more about each other, looking for common ground and similarities.
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Coming Together: Intensifying
After deciding to continue the relationship: Conversations become more serious and interactions more meaningful.
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Coming Together: Integrating
Exclusivity: Higher Expectations of each other than before, know more about each other and spend more time together.
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Coming Together: Bonding
Wanting others to know about the relationship.
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Coming Apart: Differentiating
Both partners are figuring out their own identities: Differences are emphasized and similarities overlooked, failure to balance Independence.
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Coming Apart: Circumscribing
Limit Interactions with each other, less affection, and less intimacy.
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Coming Apart: Stagnating
No growth or improvement in relationship, less communication, and relationship feels like a chore.
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Coming Apart: Avoiding
Avoiding each other completely: No communication, don't want to see or speak to each other.
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Coming Apart: Terminating
End of Relationship.
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Relationship Maintenance: Positivity
Communicating with partners in a happy and supportive way.
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Relationship Maintenance: Openness
Focus communication on the relationship.
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Relationship Maintenance: Assurances
Using words that emphasize commitment to the relationship.
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Relationship Maintenance: Networking
Communicating with family and friends.
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Relationship Maintenance: Sharing Tasks
Sharing work or household chores.
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Relationship Maintenance: Conflict Managment
Dealing with conflict in a patient and respectful way.
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Relationship Maintenance: Advice
Frequent communication about the relationship.
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Relationship Dialectics: Separation-Integration
Partners seek intimacy but are not willing to sacrifice their identity.
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How to cope with Separation-Integration?
Cope through Balance: Compromise.
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Relationship Dialectics: Predictability-Novelty
Rituals or routines that, overtime, interfere with our ability to grow or recognize growth.
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How to cope with Predictability-Novelty?
Cope through Recalibration: Re-examine the relationship you have with this person and redefine it.
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Relationship Dialectics: Openness-Closedeness
Disclosure vs. Privacy
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How to cope with Openness-Closedeness?
Cope through Reaffirmation: Accept that you don't need to know everything about your partner and they don't need to know everything about you.
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Relationship Dialectics: Similarity-Differences
If a couple is too similar, they can't grow. If a couple is too different, they aren't compatible.
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How to cope with Similarity-Differences?
Cope through Integration: Blend perspectives and learn to see things from each other's points of view.
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Relationship Dialectics: Ideal-Real
Perceptions of god or bad things may inhibit our perception of what is real.
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How to Cope with Ideal-Real?
Cope through Segmentation: Break down the Ideal and compare it to the Real.
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Conflict
An interactive process occurs when conscious beings have opposing or incompatible actions, beliefs, goals, ideas, motives, needs, objectives, or values.
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Emotions
Reactions to stimuli in the outside world.
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Feelings
Response to thoughts and interpretations given to emotions based on experience, memory, expectations, and personality.