ALS Expeditionary Airman UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Cultural Schema - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A complex mental framework used to codify
the perceptions we associate to a particular culture.
Culture - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Shared set of traditions, belief systems, and behaviors
and is shaped by many factors, including history, religion, politics, resources, and economic
environment.
macro-culture - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Most powerful culture of a particular society
(often associated to countries) because large numbers of people belong to it.
micro-culture - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A group of people living within a society who
share cultural values, beliefs, and behaviors.
Holism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The idea that all aspects of a culture are related to each
other.
Culture-General education - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Enhances a service member's ability
to recognize when cultural factors exist and determine the appropriate behaviors to
implement to achieve desired results.
Ethnocentrism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Tendency where one views their culture as
superior to other cultures.
Cross-Cultural Competence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Ability to effectively comprehend
and act in a culturally complex environment to achieve desired results.
Culture-General Knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Understanding basic concepts like
culture, relativism, ethnocentrism, and holism.
, Communicate, Negotiate, Relate - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- These are the cultural skills an
Airman must have to "operationalize" and influence their environment.
Motivation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Perhaps the most essential element of cross-cultural
competence. Having a positive attitude toward cultural differences.
Stereotypes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A fixed or distorted generalization about all
members of a particular group that share a particular diversity.
Prejudice - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is the creation of an adverse or unreasonable opinion
about a person or group without gathering all the facts and is usually based on deeply held
beliefs.
Discrimination - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- is the visible act or consideration to act in favor
of or against a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or
thing belongs, rather than on individual merit.
Observe Step - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Gather information about the landscape, the
people, and the activities and review any consequences you experienced from previous
actions taken.
Orient Step - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Attempt to make sense of what we see by
organizing it in a practical way we find useful.
Decide Step - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Consider courses of action, options, and
interpretation; selecting on to use.
Act Step - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Review the decisions made, actions taken, and results
achieved.
Relativism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Viewing a situation through the local cultural
schema.
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Cultural Schema - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A complex mental framework used to codify
the perceptions we associate to a particular culture.
Culture - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Shared set of traditions, belief systems, and behaviors
and is shaped by many factors, including history, religion, politics, resources, and economic
environment.
macro-culture - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Most powerful culture of a particular society
(often associated to countries) because large numbers of people belong to it.
micro-culture - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A group of people living within a society who
share cultural values, beliefs, and behaviors.
Holism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The idea that all aspects of a culture are related to each
other.
Culture-General education - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Enhances a service member's ability
to recognize when cultural factors exist and determine the appropriate behaviors to
implement to achieve desired results.
Ethnocentrism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Tendency where one views their culture as
superior to other cultures.
Cross-Cultural Competence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Ability to effectively comprehend
and act in a culturally complex environment to achieve desired results.
Culture-General Knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Understanding basic concepts like
culture, relativism, ethnocentrism, and holism.
, Communicate, Negotiate, Relate - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- These are the cultural skills an
Airman must have to "operationalize" and influence their environment.
Motivation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Perhaps the most essential element of cross-cultural
competence. Having a positive attitude toward cultural differences.
Stereotypes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A fixed or distorted generalization about all
members of a particular group that share a particular diversity.
Prejudice - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is the creation of an adverse or unreasonable opinion
about a person or group without gathering all the facts and is usually based on deeply held
beliefs.
Discrimination - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- is the visible act or consideration to act in favor
of or against a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or
thing belongs, rather than on individual merit.
Observe Step - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Gather information about the landscape, the
people, and the activities and review any consequences you experienced from previous
actions taken.
Orient Step - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Attempt to make sense of what we see by
organizing it in a practical way we find useful.
Decide Step - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Consider courses of action, options, and
interpretation; selecting on to use.
Act Step - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Review the decisions made, actions taken, and results
achieved.
Relativism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Viewing a situation through the local cultural
schema.
