Global Businesses Often Find It Particularly Difficult to Understand the __________

question 80

Multiple Choice

Global businesses often find it particularly difficult to understand the __________ of a country's culture.

• A) symbols
• B) underlying values
• C) ceremonies
• D) dress
• E) visible artifacts

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Definitions:

Counterfactual Thinking

The human tendency to create possible alternatives to life events that have already occurred, something akin to imagining "what might have been."

Availability Heuristic

A cognitive bias wherein individuals judge the probability of events based on how easily examples come to mind.

Representativeness Heuristic

A cognitive shortcut that involves making judgments about the probability of an event under uncertainty, based on how much it resembles the typical case.

Theory of Mind

The ability to attribute mental states—beliefs, intents, desires, emotions, knowledge—to oneself and others, and to understand that others have beliefs, desires, and intentions that are different from one's own.