Necessity of Intercultural Communication MCQs

Necessity of Intercultural Communication MCQs

Answer these 20+ Necessity of Intercultural Communication MCQs and see how sharp is your knowledge of Necessity of Intercultural Communication.
Scroll down and let's start!

1: Intercultural communication apprehension is defined as the ______.

A.   Fear or anxiety people experience when communicating with persons from another culture

B.   Nonverbal communication people experience when communicating

C.   Prejudices people experience when communicating with persons from another culture

D.   Fear or anxiety people experience when communicating with persons from the same culture

2: A fundamental assumption of intercultural communication is that the message sent is usually ______.

A.   Not the message received

B.   Interpreted accurately

C.   Not heard

D.   Not the message encoded

3: One of the most significant effects of new communication technology such as the Internet, social networking sites, and smartphones, is that ______.

A.   Fewer people are meeting face-to-face

B.   More people are immigrating to the United States

C.   Fewer people are immigrating to the United States

D.   Information is becoming decentralized

4: That communication is symbolic is a fundamental assumption guiding most communication scholars. A symbol is defined as a(n) ______ selected and learned stimulus that represents ______.

A.   Arbitrarily; something else

B.   Purposefully; something else

C.   Arbitrarily; itself

D.   Arbitrarily; a symbol

5: The benefits of intercultural communication include healthier communities, increased commerce, reduced conflict, and ______.

A.   Decreased immigration

B.   Increased immigration

C.   Personal growth through tolerance

D.   Academic growth through tolerance

6: Culture can be defined as an accumulated pattern of values, beliefs, and behaviors, shared by a(n) ______ group of people with a common history and verbal and nonverbal symbol systems.

A.   Identifiable

B.   Unidentifiable

C.   Indiscriminate

D.   Random

7: Intercultural Communication is primarily ______.

A.   The fear or anxiety people experience when communicating with others

B.   A nonverbal act between people of different cultures

C.   A verbal act between people of different cultures

D.   A speech act between people of different cultures

8: Intercultural communication is a cycle of ______.

A.   Environments and perceptions

B.   Stress and adaptation

C.   Symbols and signals

D.   High and low uncertainty systems

A.   True

B.   False

10: To say that communication is transactional means that during communication each person simultaneously sends (encodes) and receives (decodes) messages.

A.   True

B.   False

11: Culture is innate. People do not learn culture.

A.   True

B.   False

12: Intercultural communication necessarily involves a clash of communicator style.

A.   True

B.   False

13: Ethnocentrism forms the basis for patriotism, group loyalty, and the willingness to sacrifice for one’s own group.

A.   True

B.   False

14: Although we may not think about it much, people express and create meaning through the shared food they eat.

A.   True

B.   False

15: Ethical principles of western cultures are based on how human acts contribute to the happiness and general well-being of the individual.

A.   True

B.   False

16: The simultaneous encoding, decoding, and interpretation of verbal and nonverbal messages between people is known as ______ .

A.   Communication

B.   Context

C.   Culture

D.   Ethnocentrism

17: Communication apprehension is the _______ associated with either real or anticipated communication with another person or group of persons.

A.   Fear

B.   Anxiety

C.   Both a & b

D.   None of these

18: The cultural, physical, social, and psychological environment is known as _______ .

A.   Communication

B.   Context

C.   Culture

D.   Ethnocentrism

19: Culture is an accumulated pattern of values, beliefs, and behaviors shared by an identifiable group of people .

A.   True

B.   False

20: Dynamic is something considered _______ .

A.   Active

B.   Forceful

C.   Both a & b

D.   None of these

21: The tendency to place one’s own group in a position of centrality and highest worth is known as _______ .

A.   Communication

B.   Context

C.   Culture

D.   Ethnocentrism

22: GENE Scale is a Self-report instrument designed to measure generalized ethnocentrism.

A.   True

B.   False

23: Two persons from different cultures or microcultures exchanging verbal and nonverbal messages is known as _____ .

A.   Intercultural communication

B.   Interacultural communication

C.   Both a & b

D.   None of these

24: An identifiable group of people who share a set of values, beliefs, and behaviors are called ______ .

A.   Intercultural communication

B.   Intercultural communication

C.   Microculture

D.   None of these

25: Personal Report of Communication Apprehension is a self-report instrument designed to measure communication apprehension.

A.   True

B.   False

26: Anything ongoing, ever changing, and continuous is known as ______ .

A.   Process

B.   Symbol

C.   Collectivism

D.   All of these

27: An arbitrarily selected and learned stimulus representing something else is known as ______ .

A.   Process

B.   Symbol

C.   Collectivism

D.   All of these