Culture and Intercultural Communication MCQs
Culture and Intercultural Communication MCQs
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1: Channel means by which a message is transmitted .
A. True
B. False
2: Co-culture is an _______ subculture within a society
A. Interdependent
B. Equal
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
3: Intentionally stimulating meaning in other humans through the use of symbols
A. Intentionally stimulating meaning in other humans through the use of symbols is known as ______ .
B. Co-culture
C. Communication
D. Confucianism
E. None of these
4: Confucianism is an ethical system based on the teaching of Confucius, emphasizing personal ________ to family and society .
A. Virtue
B. Devotion
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
5: Context is the _______ in which communication takes place
A. Physical
B. Social environment
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
6: A membership group of people with rules, behaviors, and desires separate from the larger culture is known as _______ .
A. Counterculture
B. Cultural identity
C. Decoding
D. Ethnic identity
7: Identification with and perceived acceptance into a culture is known as ______ .
A. Counterculture
B. Cultural identity
C. Decoding
D. Ethnic identity
8: Sum total of ways of living, including behavioral norms, linguistic expression, styles of communication, patterns of thinking is known as _______ .
A. Counterculture
B. Culture
C. Decoding
D. Ethnic identity
9: Decoding is the process of assigning meaning to symbols .
A. True
B. False
10: The process of putting the communication source’s ideas into symbols is known as ______ .
A. Encoding
B. Culture
C. Decoding
D. Ethnic identity
11: Ethnic identity is an Identification with and perceived acceptance into an ethnic group .
A. True
B. False
12: Ethnicity is ______ identified by shared descent and heritage
A. Subculture
B. Subgroup
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
13: The portion of receiver response that a source attends to is known as _____ .
A. Encoding
B. Culture
C. Decoding
D. Feedback
14: Hero is a _______ person who serves as a behavior model within a culture
A. Real
B. Imaginary
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
15: Honorific used in some languages to show respect
A. True
B. False
16: Encoded ideas of the communication source are known as _____ .
A. Microculture
B. Receiver response
C. Message
D. Subculture
17: Microculture avoids the negative connotations of the terms _______ .
A. Subculture
B. Co-culture
C. Subgroup
D. All of these
18: Myth is a story with images representing a culture’s values .
A. True
B. False
19: Noise is an ________ imitations on the effectiveness of communication
A. External
B. Internal
C. Semantic
D. All of these
20: A group who share some hereditary physical characteristics is known as _______ .
A. Receiver
B. Receiver response
C. Race
D. None of these
21: Someone who attends to a communication message is known as ______ .
A. Receiver
B. Receiver response
C. Race
D. None of these
22: Anything the receiver of a communication message does after having decoded the message is known as _______ .
A. Receiver
B. Receiver response
C. Race
D. None of these
23: Reference group is a group to which one aspires to attain membership .
A. True
B. False
24: A socially essential collective activity within a culture is known as ______ .
A. Social class
B. Ritual
C. Subculture
D. None of these
25: A term used to refer to horizontal stratification of people is known as _______ .
A. Social class
B. Ritual
C. Subculture
D. None of these
26: An idea he or she desires to communicate is known as ________
A. Social class
B. Ritual
C. Subculture
D. Source
27: Subculture is a group within a ______ that shares distinctive cultural characteristics to distinguish it from others .
A. Larger society
B. Medium Society
C. Small Society
D. None of these
28: Subgroup is a group based on _______ that, like cultures, provide patterns of behavior and values .
A. Vocation
B. Avocation
C. Special skills
D. All of these
29: A person, place, action, word, or thing that is used to represent something other than itself is known as _____ .
A. Symbol
B. Ritual
C. Subculture
D. Source
30: Tribal sovereignty is an authority of tribes within the _______ to manage tribal affairs and tribal government limits .
A. United States
B. Pakistan
C. UAE
D. None of these
31: Value is a central organizing belief or belief system that shapes a person’s goals and motivations .
A. True
B. False
32: Individualism is a cultural orientation in which the individual is _______ goals are emphasized over group goals.
A. Unique
B. Individual
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
33: The extent to which members of a culture expect and accept that power is unequally distributed is known as ______ .
A. Power distance
B. Uncertainty avoidance
C. Low context
D. None of these
34: Uncertainty avoidance is the degree to which members of a particular culture feel threatened by _______ .
A. Unpredictable
B. Uncertain
C. Unknown situations
D. All of these
35: 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 .
A. True
B. False
36: 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 _______ .
A. Vertical individualism
B. Hispanic/Latino
C. Vertical collectivism
D. None of these
37: The collaborative construction and negotiation of meaning between the self and others as it occurs within cultural contexts is called ____________ .
A. Communication
B. Communication as Constitutive
C. Communication as Representation
D. Construction
38: Communication is abstract or separate from our lives and the world around us:
A. Communication
B. Communication as Constitutive
C. Communication as Representation
D. Construction
39: 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).
A. Communication
B. Communication as Constitutive
C. Communication as Representation
D. Construction
40: ___________ is the act of making, of putting pieces together, to build our social lives through communication.
A. Communication
B. Communication as Constitutive
C. Communication as Representation
D. Construction
41: Critical Inquiry means asking complicated questions and sorting out the implications of our in/actions.
A. True
B. False
42: A worldview or way of studying communication that requires careful analysis of power and commitment to social justice is known as:
A. Idiosyncratic
B. Critical Paradigm
C. Culture
D. Cultural Location
43: __________ is a system of shared meanings and assumptions that draw people together within a social context of shared power.
A. Idiosyncratic
B. Critical Paradigm
C. Culture
D. Cultural Location
44: 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.
A. False
B. True
45: 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:
A. Idiosyncratic
B. Critical Paradigm
C. Culture
D. Cultural Location
46: Knowledge that there are choices present in any given moment is called ____________.
A. Informed Choice
B. Power
C. Public Advocacy
D. Recursive
47: Power is a productive tension resulting from our different locations within culture.
A. False
B. True
48: Public Advocacy means engaging the public through ___________ responsible communication toward an end that seeks a better world for our communities and our families.
A. Careful communication
B. Reflective communication
C. Thoughtful communication
D. All of these
49: Recursive means in speech crafting, this principle suggests that in generating a speech, you will bounce back.
A. True
B. False
50: ___________ is a collective set of assumptions or expectations (that is, rules and norms that link the members).
A. Recursive
B. System of Meaning
C. Public Advocacy
D. None of these
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