PSYC1101 Midterm Review

What Is culture?

Which of these are influences on culture? Select all that apply.

• Nationality

• Ethnicity

• Taste in Music

• Age

What is Perspective?

• a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view.

• of a person or their judgment) not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.

• a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view.

The following are examples of what?

·       valuing/respect of other human being 

·       valuing/respect for cultural difference and diversity

·       valuing/respect for other cultures/cultural otherness 

·       tolerance − tolerance for ambiguity 

·       empathy and decentring 

·       critical cultural awareness 

·       intercultural behavior 

·       critical thinking 

·       multiperspectivity 

·       knowledge and understanding of culture in general

What is Co Cultural Communication?

TRUE or FALSE: Uncertainty avoidance refers to how a culture deals with uncertainty and anxiety.

• True

• Fake news

Convergence refers to how we make our language more like the person's we are talking to.

• True

• False

Divergence refers to how individuals change their style of communication to heighten the differences between themselves and the people they’re communicating with.

• True

• False

In the video The Marshmallow Test – the children had to resist what?

The cause of our behaviour is attributed to something within ourselves such as our attitude, our disposition, our skills.

• Internal Attribution Errors

• External Attribution Errors