The main goal of empathic listening is to understand what the other person is saying.

Personal identity is the perception of what makes an individual unique with regard to various personality characteristics, interests, and values.

Effective listening includes utilizing both verbal and nonverbal communication.

Syntax refers to the rules by which we arrange words.

Perception is the process of using the senses to acquire information about the surrounding environment or situation.

When paraphrasing the speaker’s message to check your understanding of it, you should avoid “I statements.”

One of the key factors to producing a positive intergroup outcome includes equal status among the groups.

According to the textbook, which of the following is a dominant identity in the United States?

In low uncertainty-avoidance cultures, people are threatened by ideas from outside and embrace written rules.

1. Paul Tillich defined idolatry in a past reading ( Ultimate Concern) thus: “Idolatry is the elevation of a preliminary concern to ultimacy.” (p. 13, in FTS) 2. In the present reading ( 25. Theology and the Human Situation), Tillich asserts that it is “necessary to seek a theological method in which message and situation are related in such a way that neither of them is obliterated.” He then goes on to say that his method of doing theology will employ a “’method of correlation’ as a way of uniting message and situation.” (p. 75, FTS) Thesis: According to Tillich, a theology that does not employ a “method of correlation” is/is not necessarily idolatrous.