Cross Cultural Management - Week 4

______ explains how we develop mental representations and how our mental representations influence the way we process information about people and social events.

• A. Schemas

• B. Social cognition

• C. Complexity

• D. Type 1

______ are derived from our past experiences and are simple representations of the complex concepts that they represent.

• A. Schemas

• B. Behavioral sequences

• C. Type 1

• D. Intercultural situations

Our capacity for engaging in ______ social cognition is very limited and tiring.

• A. intercultural

• B. Type 2

• C. Type 1

• D. complexity

Avery has been living in Venezuela for 6 months. His cultural expertise has developed and he is beginning to interact in appropriate ways with less cognitive effort. In other words, Avery has begun to use more ______ social cognition.

• A. simple

• B. Type 2

• C. Type 1

• D. complexity

A (n) ______ self-schema is typical in Western cultures in which people are expected to think and act as autonomous individuals with unique attributes.

• A. independent

• B. intercultural interaction

• C. interdependent

• D. cross-cultural interaction

. ______ is the total of the social categories that people use to describe themselves.

• A. Scripts

• B. Societal sanctions

• C. Social identity

• D. Internalization

______ are acceptable standards of behavior that are shared by members of our cultural group.

• A. Work group interactions

• B. Scripts

• C. Societal sanctions

• D. Cultural norms

______ is the process by which individuals interpret the messages received from their senses and thereby give meaning to their environment.

• A. Avoidance

• B. Perception

• C. Interpersonal attraction

• D. Internalization

______ of a cultural group are based on simplifying the plethora of information about individuals and societies that is provided by our environment.

• A. Resistance

• B. Complexity

• C. Stereotypic expectations

• D. Familiarity

______ helps us to understand and react to our environment by linking the observation of an event its causes—either internal or external.

• A. attribution

• B. resistance

• C. inclusion

• D. stereotypes