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SPCH 1318 Final Exam questions andanswers already passed
Individualism - correct answer ✔✔Prefer a loosely-knit social framework in which individuals are
expected to take care of only themselves and immediate family.
Collectivism - correct answer ✔✔Prefer a tightly-knit framework in society in which individuals can
expect their relatives or members of a particular in-group to look after them in exchange of
unquestioning loyalty.
High context - correct answer ✔✔- Indirect
- Many things are unsaid
- Metaphors, insinuation, innuendo, hint
- Nonverbal communication
- Being direct can be disrespectful
- EX: Japan
Low context - correct answer ✔✔- Direct
- Express thoughts, feeling, ideas clearly
- Explicit
- Being indirect can be seen as weak/passive aggressive
-Verbal communication
- EX: USA
Low power distance - correct answer ✔✔- Society de-emphasizes the differences between citizens'
power and wealth
- Value challenging authority and cooperation across power levels
- "All people are equal"
- EX: Israel
, High power distance - correct answer ✔✔- Inequalities of power and wealth exist within the society and
the less powerful members of the society accept the situation
- Subordinates acknowledge the power of others based of hierarchical positions/tites
-EX: Mexico
Power distance index (PDI) - correct answer ✔✔The extent to which the less powerful members of
organizations and institutions accept and expect that power is distributed unequally.
Monochronic - correct answer ✔✔- Time is seen as finite
- Relationships yield to schedules
- One task at a time
- Work time is clearly separable from personal time
Polychronic - correct answer ✔✔- Time is seen as holistic and fluid
- Schedules yield to relationships
- Appointment times are flexible
- Work is not clearly separable from personal time
Low uncertainty avoidance index - correct answer ✔✔- Comfortable with uncertainty
- Accept/value novelty (less rules)
- Tolerant of other opinions
- Tend to see High UAI cultures as overly-rigid
High uncertainty avoidance index - correct answer ✔✔- Highly motivated to avoid uncertainty
- Feel safer with structure and prefer rules
- See low UAI cultures as undisciplined
Masculinity - correct answer ✔✔- Achievement
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