Christopher Novak Works for a Multinational Financial Organization Based in Britain

question 29

Multiple Choice

Christopher Novak works for a multinational financial organization based in Britain. He was transferred to Japan ten months ago to impart training on a new process to the executives at the company's back office. After experiencing the initial excitement of getting to know the new culture and surroundings, Christopher has begun to feel frustrated that he cannot carry out a single conversation satisfactorily due to his lack of fluency in Japanese. He now misses home and feels helpless in this foreign assignment. Christopher is experiencing the _____ phase of the adjustment process.

• A) adaption
• B) resistance
• C) biculturalism
• D) elation
• E) exhaustion

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Definitions:

Common Region

A principle of perceptual organization where elements located within the same bounded space are perceived as being grouped together.

Closure

The psychological phenomenon of seeking a sense of resolution or completeness in perceptual or cognitive processes.

Contiguity

A Gestalt principle of perception; the tendency to perceive two things that happen close together in time as being related.

Continuity

A Gestalt principle of perception; the tendency to perceive things as simply as possible with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern.