COR 001: MODULE # 8

A “learned system of knowledge, behavior, attitudes, beliefs, values, and norms shared by a group of people” called?

• dominant culture

• culture

• community

The feeling of stress and anxiety that most people experience when encountering a culture different from their own is referred to as

• enculturation

• culture shock

• ethnocentrism

Which barrier to effective intercultural communication is taking place when a person assumes that all the people who belong to another social group or class will act and think just as he or she does?

• stereotyping and prejudice

• ethnocentrism

• assuming similarity

Which barrier to effective intercultural communication might cause mistranslations like “body by Fisher” being translated in Flemish to read “corpse by Fisher”?

• different communication codes

• assuming similarity

• ethnocentrism

The process by which an individual learns the traditional content of a culture and assimilates its practices

and values.

• Enculturation

• Ethnocentrism

• Streotyping

• Prejudice

Believing that the people, customs, and traditions of your own race or nationality are better than those of

other races.

• Enculturation

• Ethnocentrism

• Streotyping

• Prejudice

Idea that people have about what someone or something is like, especially an idea that is wrong.

• Enculturation

• Ethnocentrism

• Streotyping

• Prejudice

An unfair and unreasonable opinion or feeling, especially when formed without enough thought or knowledge

• Enculturation

• Ethnocentrism

• Streotyping

• Prejudice

A student who believes that their school’s way of dressing is the only appropriate style might criticize classmates who wear traditional clothing from their own cultures.

• Enculturation

• Ethnocentrism

• Streotyping

• Prejudice

Believing that all teenagers are lazy

• Enculturation

• Ethnocentrism

• Streotyping

• Prejudice