Deck 10: Intercultural Competence in Interpersonal Relationships

Question 1

Emotional consequences of uncertainty and anxiety management may include

A) increased levels of self-disclosure.
B) heightened interpersonal attraction.
C) more frequent nonverbal displays of positive emotions.
D) all of the above.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

According to Ting-Toomey, in which type of culture are individuals able to express their agitation and anger about an issue and then joke and socialize with the person?

A) individualistic cultures
B) present-oriented cultures
C) collectivistic cultures
D) future-oriented cultures Factual

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which term describes the range of topics that are revealed during self disclosure?

A) depth
B) timing
C) valence
D) breadth Conceptual

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which type of information-gathering strategy reduces the level of uncertainty during actual conversation with the other person?

A) passive
B) aggressive
C) interactive
D) active Conceptual

Question 5

The consequences of uncertainty and anxiety management behaviors that are applicable to intercultural communication are grouped under what two generic labels?

A) attitudinal consequences and emotional consequences
B) informational consequences and psychological consequences
C) informational consequences and emotional consequences
D) attitudinal consequences and psychological consequences Conceptual

Question 6

The actions that people take to deal with the face-needs of oneself and others is called

A) negative face.
B) positive face.
C) facework.
D) mien-tzu. Factual

Question 7

Which of the following is NOT a condition that leads to increased uncertainty and anxiety management behaviors?

A) You expect to have future interactions with the other people.
B) The other people exhibit behaviors that are consistent with what you had been expecting.
C) Your incentive value for continuing the relationship is high.
D) Your potential rewards in the relationship are high.

Question 8

The three general strategies to gain information and reduce the level of uncertainty are

A) passive, aggressive, and active.
B) passive, active, and interactive.
C) passionate, aggressive, and interactive.
D) passive, active, and intercultural. Factual

Question 9

As one of the three primary dimensions used by people throughout the world to interpret interpersonal communication messages, affiliation

A) involves status or social dominance.
B) is used by members of a culture to interpret the degree of friendliness, liking, social warmth, etc.
C) refers to the ways people react to the world around them.
D) none of the above

Question 10

Which three kinds of face needs are suggested by Tae-Seop Lim?

A) control, approval, and affiliation
B) affiliation, approval, and activation
C) control, approval, and admiration
D) admiration, apprehension, and closure Factual

Question 11

Competent interpersonal relationships among people from different cultures

A) usually happen just by accident.
B) occur as a result of the knowledge and perceptions that people have about one another.
C) only requires an awareness of actions that are regarded as appropriate and effective.
D) are rarely achievedl

Question 12

Family or kinship relationships can be characterized by the following questions:

A) How is the family defined?
B) What is the formality of roles and behavioral expectations of particular family members?
C) What is the importance of the family in social relationships and personal decisions?
D) All of the above Conceptual

Question 13

The term face refers to

A) a social image.
B) an impression held by others.
C) desired favorable social attributes.
D) all of the above.

Question 14

The authors discussed five types of changes in perceptions and behaviors that most likely occur as a relationship moves from an initial acquaintance to a close friendship. Which of the following was NOT listed by the authors?

A) Friends talk to each other more often, for longer periods of time, and in more varied settings.
B) Increased knowledge of the other person's motives and typical behaviors means that there is an increased ability to predict the person's reactions to common situations.
C) The sense of "we-ness" increases.
D) As a result of increased time together, the people will begin having minor to major conflicts to handle

Question 15

The autonomy-connection dialectic in interpersonal relationships

A) refers to people's desire for change and stability.
B) refers to people's desire to share or withhold personal information.
C) refers to the degree to which people react around them.
D) refers to the extent to which individuals vary in their desire for separation to a feeling of attachment.

Question 16

In individualistic cultures,

A) preserving one's own face is most important.
B) preserving the face of others is most important
C) the mutual preservation of everyone's face is most important.
D) preserving the face of uninvolved bystanders is most important.

Question 17

Competence in developing and maintaining intercultural relationships requires which of the following?

A) knowledge of differences
B) a willingness to consider and try alternatives
C) the skill to enact alternative relational dynamics
D) all of the above Conceptual

Question 18

Which of the following are the three primary dimensions used by people throughout the world to interpret interpersonal communication messages?

A) control, apprehension, and affiliation
B) closure, affiliation, and activation
C) control, affiliation, and activation
D) closure, apprehension, and affiliation Factual

Question 19

The openness-closedness dialectic in interpersonal relationships

A) refers to people's desire for change and stability.
B) refers to people's desire to share or withhold personal information.
C) refers to the degree to which people react around them.
D) refers to the extent to which individuals vary in their desire for separation to a feeling of attachment.

Question 20

When a person acts deviantly, it most often means that

A) the level of uncertainty about that person decreases.
B) the person is often disliked and is regarded as interpersonally unattractive.
C) there are psychological problems that should be checked quickly.
D) all of the above are true.

Question 21

Universal face needs include the need for control, approval, and admiration.

Question 22

The similarity-attraction hypothesis suggests that we like people who are less similar to ourselves but that we find more attractive than ourselvesl

Question 23

What is the link between developing competence in intercultural relationships and uncertainty reduction? What are the conditions related to uncertainty and anxiety management behaviors?

Question 24

In collectivist cultures, people are more likely to separate the task and the instrumental dimensions of conflict situationsl

Question 25

Face does not always occur within a relational setting.

Question 26

An interpersonal relationship with large status differences among the participants is not likely to be face-threateningl

Question 27

The interaction with an acquaintance tends to be on a superficial level.

Question 28

Describe the different face needs across cultures and their impact on intercultural relationships.

Question 29

Explain the concept of face and its significance for interpersonal relationships.

Question 30

Uncertainty reduction strategies do not come into play in relationships that are moving from an acquaintance to friendship

Question 31

What are the two issues involved in conflict? Using a personal example, explain how these issues affect conflict resolution between individualistic and collectivistic cultures?

Question 32

Friendships usually occur between people who see themselves as similar in some important ways and who belong to the same social classl

Question 33

Intercultural communication is often characterized by an increased tendency to misinterpret nonverbal control and status cuesl

Question 34

Explain the cultural differences in self-disclosure.

Question 35

The degree of "personalness" about oneself that is revealed in self-disclosure is called the
depth of the self-disclosing information.