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Face refers to a person's sense of favorable self-worth or self-image experienced during communicative situations.
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Individualists become frustrated during conflict when their counterparts are unwilling to address the conflict openly and honestly.
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To the collectivist, conflict is closely related to the goals or outcomes. Conflict is “end” oriented, in that the collectivist seeks to achieve something.
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The person who tries to balance both self-face and other-face needs takes on an accommodating style. This person would probably use a “give-and-take” approach and might propose some middle ground for resolving the conflict.
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Facework refers to the communicative strategies employed to manage one's own face or to support or challenge another's face. Facework can be employed to initiate, manage, or terminate conflict.
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Research has shown that collectivists tend to prefer facework behaviors that defend the self-face or confront the other.
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In Kim's Model of Intercultural Conflict, the macro or societal level of intercultural conflict includes factors that probably are out of the control of the interactants.
Question 8
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Most intercultural conflict involves a certain degree of ethnocentric perceptions and judgments.
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Collectivists tend to prefer other-face strategies such as avoiding the conflict, seeking a third party, or giving in to the other.
Question 10
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In low-context cultures, such as the United States, individuals are more likely to separate the conflict issue from the persons involved.
Question 11
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Which of the following is not a part of the micro level of Kim's Model of Intercultural Conflict?
Question 12
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The intermediary level of Kim's Model of Intercultural Conflict refers to:
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Defined outside cultural mediators
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The actual location and context of the conflict
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The status of the interactants involved
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None of the above
Question 13
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Which of the following best defines facework?
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The communicative strategies employed to manage one's own face or to support or challenge another's face
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The communicative strategies employed to attack an opponent's dominant communication style
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The communicative strategies employed to attack an opponent's integrating style
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The communicative strategies employed to define one's face
Question 14
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One's conflict interaction style is based on two communication dimensions, including:
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Integrating and accommodating
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Avoiding and dominating
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Self-face need and other-face need
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Mutual face-need and interface-need
Question 15
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During intercultural conflict, in general, individualists tend to use more ________ styles
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dominating
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integrative
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avoiding
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obliging
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During intercultural conflict, in general, collectivists tend to use more ___________ styles than individualists.
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integrating
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dominating
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acommodating
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confrontational
Question 17
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A dominating communication conflict style is associated with a:
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High self-face concern and a low other self-concern
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High self-face concern and a high other-face concern
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Low self-face concern and a low other face
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Low self-face concern and a high other-face concern
Question 18
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An avoiding communication conflict style is associated with a:
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High self-face concern and a low other self-concern
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High self-face concern and a high other-face concern
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Low self-face concern and a low other face concern
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Low self-face concern and a high other-face concern
Question 19
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An integrating communication conflict style is associated with a:
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High self-face concern and a low other self-concern
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High self-face concern and a high other-face concern
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Low self-face concern and a low other face concern
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Low self-face concern and a high other-face concern
Question 20
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An obliging communication conflict style is associated with a:
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High self-face concern and a low other self-concern
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High self-face concern and a high other-face concern
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Low self-face concern and a low other face concern
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Low self-face concern and a high other-face concern
Question 21
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Persons in low context cultures, in general, prefer:
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Direct communication about the conflict
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Indirect communication about the conflict
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Self-face communication about the conflict
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Other-face communication about the conflict
Question 22
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Persons in high context cultures, in general, prefer:
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Direct communication about the conflict
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Indirect communication about the conflict
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Self-face communication about the conflict
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Other-face communication about the conflict