Diversity and Human Relations

Interpersonal Communication Skills

48. Asian and Western European cultures are quite similar: false 49. In a study by Herek, negave atudes about: said they didn’t know anyone who is gay or lesbian 50. Sexual orientaon and sexual preference are quite equivalent terms: false 51. The verbal and nonverbal language and symbols that you use about a group are: indicave of your respect for others and your ability to think before you speak 52. When people from diﬀerent cultural backgrounds interact, they experience challenges that are diﬀerent from those that arise: true 53. According to the U.S census data, the African American and Hispanic American groups are nearly equal in size while European American group is about ﬁve mes larger: true 54. A generaon’s worldview is shaped by its locaon in history and where its members were developmentally during signiﬁcant events: true 55. The term refers to a person who idenﬁes with the biological and social characteriscs of the other gender: transgendered 56. In hofstedse’s cultural model, refers to the level of tolerance in a society for ambiguity and unstructured situaons. Uncertainty avoidance 57. Whether you consider a group to be an in-group or an out group: idenfy with and share characteriscs with other in the group 58. According to the 2000 US census data, minority group is a misnomer since: false 59. Ethnocentrism is a characterisc of intercultural competence: false 60. Hofstede’s cultural model was developed to help internaonal businesses and corporaons: the naonal or regional culture 61. A term used to refer to physical characteriscs such as skin color: race 62. One of the best reasons for increasing understanding and communicaon across gerneraon is that: there are four diﬀerent generaons in the US working side by side for the ﬁrst me in history 63. One factor contribung to how men and women communicate and relate diﬀerently is that girls and boys: Play acvies and games 64. Would not be associated with intercultural competence? stereotyping 65. The atude that one’s culture is superior to other cultures is called: ethnocetrism 66. There are cases of interpersonal communicaon that are not inﬂuenced by intercultural consideraons: true 67. Recent studies of religious idenﬁcaon in the US indicate that more people idenfy themselves as: religious or somewhat religious 68. Out groups are groups we perceive to be diﬀerent from ourselves: true Secon 15 1. The internet started as: a university experiment with military communicaons for naonal security 2. Text based communicaon has paradoxical blend of feeling close and maintaining distance: true 3. Not a signiﬁcant diﬀerence between face to face relaonships and online text relaonships; online relaonships last longer than face to face relaonships 4. In discussing the stages of an internet relaonship the term reconﬁguraon means: fantasies are brought in line with realies 5. Cyberspace relaonships involve people who: exists in the ether and meet electronically in a disembodied, faceless form 6. To ﬂame someone on the internet is to: write dispararingly about the person 7. The document formang language used to link computer documents is called: hypertext 8. Which of the following is most true about privacy in cyberspace: there is no real privacy in cyberspace 9. The words internet and world wide web: are not the same although oﬅen used synonymously 10. Cyberspace is a term based on William gibson’s book beuromancer which was; a fantasy novel about a world of computers 11. What is learned online about one’s own interpersonal style cannot be carried into oﬄine relaonships: false 12. The digital divide refers to: the extent to which one group within the larger populaon has greater access to computers than another 13. A reason that people are drawn to cyberspace romance is: all of these 14. Recent studies have shown that interpersonal communictaon mediated by the computer can be as deep and complex as personal contact: true 15. Most true about relaonships in cyberspace? Anonymity is a feature that has aracted millions of people to the cyberspace community 16. In terms of the stages of internet relaonships the tendency to create a fantasy image of the other person: fantasy intergraon 17. An early sign of being addicted to the internet is: all of these

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24. There is widespread scientific interest in extent of variation in the human genome. Which of the following statements is true? The info is located in labs, extensive body of data, worldwide geo comprehensive survey 25. Which of the following isn’t a benefit of understanding diversity? Changes how others see the world ---increase comfort/confidence, personal insight, equip deal with diversity in bus personal, and social arenas 26. The fundamental working units of every living system are called cells. 27. DNA from different types of organisms is made up of millions of different chemical components. False 28. The culture of America, starting with the assimilation of early immigrants, has often been referred to as a tossed salad, mosaic, melting pot 29. An appreciation of diversity includes but isn’t limited to different cultures of origin. 30. The conservation and protection of primitive and indigenous cultures is not vital to human biodiversity, crucial to long time survival of human, an eth and moral imperative 31. The hot button issues of diversity often overshadow ones that are more individual and personal while also significant to our interactions and relationships with others. 32. Cultural diversity isn’t easy to quantify and defining separate human populations isn’t precise. One approach that has been used for centuries is based on language. 33. Based on one of the principal criteria for counting human populations, there are signs that we are going through a period of marked decline in the world’s cultural diversity. 34. The basic physical and functional unit of heredity is the gene. 35. Bases are the chemicals found in DNA and they are repeated millions of times throughout a genome. 36. US governmental agencies are working to ensure equal opportunity to all through the enforcement of existing state laws against discrimination in employment, housing and other areas. 37. The European migration to N.A. began in 1620 when a group of about 100 from England seeking religious freedom settled here. 38. As a country becomes more multicultural through immigration, people may experience anxiety about the stability of national identity. 39. Proponents of biological determinism propose that human cultural variations are inherited in the same way as biological variations. 40. Population growth, immigration and the imposition of cultural norms by one country on another are primary causes of the increasing disappearance of languages 41. The specific order of the chemicals along the DNA strand is what underlies all of life’s diversity, dictating exact instructions for each unique organism. 42. The discovery of DNA has been called the most important biological work of the last 100 years. 43. The entire DNA in an organism in comprised in a genome

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