This document outlines the key concepts and learning objectives for students after studying chapters 5, 6, and 7 of an interpersonal and cross-cultural communication course. The chapters cover perception and motivation, cultural values and beliefs, and cultural antipathy including ethnocentrism, stereotyping, and prejudice. Students should be able to define and explain these concepts and understand how they influence cultural behaviors and communication between different groups.

1. SS112 Interpersonal
Cross Cultural
Communication
Week 8

2. After studying chapter 5, you should be able
to:
• Define perception.
• Explain the process of perception.
• Understand why the same people will explain the
same event differently.’
• Define motivation.
• Describe the Eastern and Western ways of being
motivated.

3. After studying chapter 6, you should be able
to:
• Define values and recognize how they guide our
communicative behavior.
• Note the differences in values from culture to culture.
• Define beliefs and recognize their purpose.
• Explain the role of worldview in life.
• Describe attitudes, their formation and qualities.

4. After studying chapter 7, you should be able
to:
• Understand cultural antipathy.
• Define ethnocentrism, describe its function and
understand its causes.
• Define stereotyping, know how people distort reality,
and know how stereotypes are transmitted.
• Define prejudice, know how it is communicated,
know its causes and functions, and describe ways of
intervening.