Learning About an Unfamiliar Culture

question 69

Multiple Choice

Learning about an unfamiliar culture

• A)can be accomplished only by living among its people.
• B)is generally a waste of time since no one in business expects you to do so.
• C)is a worthy undertaking,even if you learn only a small amount.
• D)requires at least one year of study before it is meaningful.

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Definitions:

Self-Serving Attributional Bias

The tendency to attribute one's successes to internal or personal factors while attributing failures to external or situational factors.

Projection

Assigning to others those traits that people fear they possess themselves.

Self-Handicapping

Placing obstacles in the way of one's own success to protect self-esteem from a possible future failure.

Self-Handicapping

A cognitive strategy where an individual sets up excuses or obstacles before a performance to have external factors to blame in case of failure.