A shy, introverted woman is now terrified because public speaking will berequired in her new job
She decides to work her way up by first initiating a conversation with a friend, then asking a few coworkers some questions, then voicing her opinion in a group, and finally giving a speech to a larger audience. What technique is she using?
a. performance visualization
b. systematic desensitization
c. self-affirmation
d. enlarged conversation
b
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Which of the following is NOT one of the criticisms that have been levied against the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
A. Just because people in a culture don't have a word to describe an experience doesn't mean they don't have that experience. B. It is unclear whether language produces thought or thought produces language. C. People who have cognitive deficiencies for learning language can still engage in thought, despite their language limitations. D. Children who grow up in a bilingual family experience a great deal of cognitive dissonance because of the conflicting languages.
Which of the following people would the authors say is acting ethically?
a. a student who delivers a classroom speech that her roommate researched and developed two semesters ago b. a student who buys a research paper, complete with a list of sources used from a research service, and submits it as his own work c. a student who purchases transcripts of televised news programs, quotes from them, and cites these sources in her speech d. a person who presents a speech found on a website because the material was never delivered in front of an audience
Josh has created very strong general ideas about how people from other cultures behave and communicate. Why Josh should avoid always applying these ideas when he meets someone from another culture?
What will be an ideal response?
Social responsibility is widely recognized today as:
a. an essential cost of doing business in the USA. b. globally impossible. c. a scam to get shareholders to believe their investment is sound. d. the "green bandwagon" of involvement in environmental issues.