Introduction to Communication Studies Exam Review
Course Introduction
Introduction to Communication Studies provides an overview of the key theories, models, and processes involved in human communication. The course explores how meaning is created, shared, and interpreted through various communication channels, including verbal, nonverbal, interpersonal, group, organizational, and mass communication. Students will examine the role of culture, context, technology, and power in shaping communication practices and outcomes, as well as develop critical thinking and analytical skills by evaluating communication in everyday life and media. By fostering an understanding of both foundational concepts and contemporary issues, the course equips students with the tools needed to navigate and contribute effectively to diverse communicative environments.
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An Introduction to Intercultural Communication 9th Edition by Fred E. Jandt
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Chapter 1: Defining Culture and Communication
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Q1) Discuss how the telephone has served as a medium of intercultural communication.
Answer: Varies,but students may discuss differences in use for both traditional phone calls and text messaging or SMS.Students may also discuss the cultural implications due to the barriers of the lack of contextual cues other than those related to voice.
Q2) The term "coculture" is used to emphasize that we are all members of multiple groups.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Schmid-Isler compared Western and Chinese Internet news sites and found a difference in layout that is attributed to ______.
A) culturally influenced perceptions of information storage and display
B) symbol differences in both written and spoken language
C) the culturally specific Internet browser used
D) values of what is considered to be socially polite
Answer: A
Q4) ______ are an element of culture referring to verbal and nonverbal language.
Answer: Symbols
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Chapter 2: Barriers to Intercultural Communication
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Q1) Discuss with examples how prejudice affects intercultural communication. Answer: Varies,but students should specifically give examples and note how they affect intercultural communication.For example,one could discuss how the dislike of a certain group could lead someone to communicate with them in ways that are rude,unfair,or otherwise unacceptable.
Q2) Based on intercultural communication concepts you have learned so far,discuss how mutual understanding between China and the United States could be improved. Answer: Varies significantly as students consider what they personally have learned,but most should include a discussion of the sections noted in the book,such as economy,broadcast media and the Internet,human rights and free speech,energy and sustainability,and/or economic issues.
Q3) Discuss the impact on the environment of China's economic development.
Answer: Varies,but may discuss air quality,energy consumption,and/or a general lack of concern regarding environmental issues on the part of the Chinese government.
Q4) Discuss how the Roma have experienced prejudice.
Answer: Varies,but may include a discussion of the Roma during World War II,the stereotypes of the Roma as thieves,or the lack of a physical nation state.
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Chapter 3: Context, Perception, and Competence
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Q1) Third culture refers to a new culture that two or more individuals from different cultures can share.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Field dependence is the degree to which perception of an object is influenced by the background or environment in which it appears.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The neurological process by which we become aware of our environment is ______.
A) sensation
B) perception
C) culture
D) intercultural competence
Answer: A
Q4) ______ has a great effect on all three steps of the perception process.
Answer: Culture
Q5) Low-context cultures such as the United States use ______ negotiation. Answer: direct-face
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Chapter 4: Nonverbal Communication
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Q1) Charles Darwin argued that some nonverbal cues are biologically determined.
A)True
B)False
Q2) List the seven universally recognized facial expressions according to research by Ekman and colleagues.
Q3) Western cultures tend to think of time in a ______ sense.
Q4) The calendar in use today,the Gregorian calendar,dates back to 1582.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Even if a smile is universally recognized as a sign of friendliness,it has other meanings specific to a culture.
A)True
B)False
Q6) ______ are sometimes arbitrary in character,sometimes based on a real or fancied analogy,and usually simpler than symbols.
A) Signs
B) Symbols
C) Markers
D) Words
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Chapter 5: Language as a Barrier
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Q1) Discuss and give examples for the translation problems related to experience.
Q2) Using at least three examples,explain the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
Q3) How do linguists trace the origins of language?
Q4) Discuss and give examples for the translation problems related to concepts.
Q5) The only Germanic language developed outside Europe is ______.
A) Afrikaans
B) Malay
C) Tswana
D) Xhosa
Q6) When Israel became independent,it adopted a largely defunct language as an official language.
A)True
B)False
Q7) English is the first language for nearly 60% of the population of South Africa.
A)True
B)False
Q8) In some Asian languages,one word can refer to both "food" and "rice."
A)True
B)False
Q9) Language is central to ______ identity. Page 7
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Chapter 6: Dimensions of Nation-State Cultures
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Q1) Discuss the two associations related to Hofstede's uncertainty avoidance dimension.
Q2) Both power distance and femininity are negatively related to the Environmental Sustainability Index.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The World Commission on Environment and Development (1987)defined ______ as "development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
Q4) Countries with a Germanic language (German,English,Dutch,Danish,Norwegian,Swedish)score ______ in power distance.
Q5) Which is the dimension that Hofstede added in a 2010 follow-up to his earlier studies?
A) masculinity-femininity
B) power distance
C) long-term versus short-term orientation to life
D) indulgence versus self-restraint
Q6) Discuss Hofstede's uncertainty avoidance dimension and provide examples of strong and weak uncertainty avoidance cultures.
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Chapter 7: Dominant USCultural Patterns Using Value
Orientation Theory
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Q1) The term ______ means "subject to change."
A) mutability
B) commodity
C) rationality
D) goodness
Q2) Discuss what is meant by hyperindividualism.
Q3) Before Columbus arrived,North America was home to a diverse population of some ______ people.
Q4) The fundamental reason for the rise of the West was an extraordinary faith in ______.
Q5) McClelland used ______ as an indicator of a culture's degree of need for achievement.
Q6) Which indigenous Northeastern American group may have influenced the U.S.Constitution?
A) Cherokee
B) Dakota
C) Inuit
D) Iroquois
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Q7) Discuss Indigenous Americans' influence on U.S.cultural patterns.
Q8) Discuss time orientation in the United States.
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Chapter 8: Religion and Identity
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Q1) Describe the practice of Islam in Saudi Arabia.
Q2) ______ is the world's largest religion with some 2.17 billion followers.
Q3) Explain what most,if not all,modern Christian denominations have in common.
Q4) Stereotypes and political unrest contribute to communication barriers between the Arab countries and the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The Western European country with the largest Muslim population is ______.
Q6) In Saudi Arabia,practice of ______ provides any citizen access to the king and local governors.
A) hajj
B) matawain
C) Wahhabism
D) majlis
Q7) What do the matawain in Saudi Arabia enforce?
A) international security agreements
B) oil export agreements
C) religious requirements
D) the practice of majlis
Q8) The ______ is part of the Saudi constitution.
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Chapter 9: Culture and Gender
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Q1) The term used to refer to the learned behaviors and attitudes associated with the words feminine and masculine is ______.
A) biological features
B) biological self
C) gender
D) sex
Q2) A thousand years ago in rural China,women devised a secret language called ______.
Q3) Selective abortion or ______ is more common in countries that show a cultural preference for male children.
Q4) Discuss the political participation measurement of the World Economic Forum study.
Q5) List and briefly discuss examples of third genders.
Q6) The term used to refer to the biological features based on chromosomal evidence that distinguish males from females is ______.
A) biological features
B) biological self
C) gender
D) sex
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Chapter 10: Immigration and Acculturation
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Q1) Maintaining one's original culture and not participating in a new culture is ______.
A) assimilation
B) integration
C) marginalization
D) separation
Q2) Of the ways to acquire citizenship,jus sanguinis or by ______ states that if your parents are citizens of a country,you are a citizen of that country no matter where you were born.
Q3) Giving up one's original cultural identity and moving into full participation in a new culture is ______.
A) assimilation
B) integration
C) marginalization
D) separation
Q4) The first stage of culture shock is irritation and hostility.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Create a hypothetical situation describing an individual experiencing culture shock.
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Chapter 11: Cultures Within Cultures
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Q1) Discuss the immigration history of the Koryo-saram.
Q2) Discuss the issues related to Spanish-speaking cultures.
Q3) Chicano refers to a population segment born in the United States but with ancestors who came from Mexico.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Gelassenheit is a common German word in Amish life that means ______.
A) separation
B) assimilation
C) submission
D) integration
Q5) Prior to the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway,how large was the population of Koreans as compared to that of Russians in the Russian Far East?
A) Koreans were a small minority.
B) Russians outnumbered Koreans.
C) Half of the Siberian population was Russian and half was Korean.
D) Koreans outnumbered Russians.
Q6) On what bases do the Amish evaluate change?
Q7) Automaker ______ established an "English Melting Pot School" for his employees.
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Chapter 12: Identity and Subgroups
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Q1) ______ is the enforced belief in heterosexual male dominance and control.
Q2) Corporate ______ has been defined as "the way we do things around here."
A) procedures
B) policy
C) environment
D) culture
Q3) ______ is the specialized language of nonprofessional groups.
Q4) Which country has both low religiosity and a low level of acceptance of homosexuality?
Q5) Discuss British punk as the basis of a subgroup.
Q6) Discuss and exemplify corporate cultures as subgroups and explain how they become established.
Q7) Writing about lesbians and gay men,Rotello argues that cultural separation occurs only when society stigmatizes a group.
A)True
B)False
Q8) ______ is the specialized language of stigmatized groups.
Q9) Discuss subgroup media and values.
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Chapter 13: Contact Between Cultures
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Q1) Define cultural icons,give examples of U.S.cultural icons,and discuss the successful marketing of U.S.cultural icons.
Q2) To be considered a global brand,the brand must carry the same brand name or logo worldwide.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Gerber Products discovered that food tastes and baby-feeding practices vary little from country to country.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Coca-Cola has met resistance as a new form of colonialism.
A)True
B)False
Q5) European explorers labeled Hawaiians savages.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The Niger delta in ______ is the world capital of oil pollution.
Q7) In 2016,Disney opened a new park in ______.
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Q8) Compare and contrast cultural hegemony and cultural dependency.
Q9) ______ refers to an individual's possible success in adapting to a new culture.
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Chapter 14: Future Challenges
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Q1) In Muslim countries,many people do not agree that suicide bombings targeting civilians can be justified in defense of Islam.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Oftentimes,religious conflict becomes intertwined with ethic and nationalist causes,as with ______ in Northern Ireland.
Q3) Discuss religion as a source of human identity and conflict,specifically giving examples of religious conflicts intertwined with ethic and nationalist causes.
Q4) Climate change will affect all regions the same.
A)True
B)False
Q5) One percentage of the world's population controls how much of the world's money,property,and other material resources?
A) 12%
B) 22%
C) 46%
D) 36%
Q6) Women's economic status is related to ______.
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