INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION CH 3

is the psychological discomfort of adjusting to a new cultural situation

• Culture shock

• Intercultural communication

• Culture

• Values

refers to interactions that occur between people whose cultures are so different that the communication between them is altered.

• Culture shock

• Intercultural communication

• Culture

• Values

is the system of beliefs, values, and attitudes, and orientations learned through communication, that guide what is considered to be appropriate thought and behavior in aparticular group of people.

• Culture shock

• Intercultural communication

• Culture

• Values

are the commonly accepted preference for some states of affairs over others.

• Culture shock

• Intercultural communication

• Culture

• Values

is that part of your self-image that is based on the cultural group or groups with which you most closely associate and align yourself.

• Cultural identity

• Uncertainty avoidance

• Low uncertainty avoidance

• High uncertainty avoidance culture

is the extent to which the people in a culture avoid unpredictability regarding people, relationships, and events.

• Cultural identity

• Uncertainty avoidance

• Low uncertainty avoidance

• High uncertainty avoidance culture

culture is a culture characterized as being accepting and having a low need to control unpredictable people, relationships, and events

• Cultural identity

• Uncertainty avoidance

• Low uncertainty avoidance

• High uncertainty avoidance culture

is one characterized as having a low tolerance for and a high need to control unpredictable people, relationships, and events

• Cultural identity

• Uncertainty avoidance

• Low uncertainty avoidance

• High uncertainty avoidance culture

is a culture in which power is distributed unequally.

• High power distance culture

• Low power distance culture

• Stereotyping

• Intercultural competence

is a culture in which power is distributed equally.

• High power distance culture

• Low power distance culture

• Stereotyping

• Intercultural competence