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Media Literacy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is a mystery?






2. the two most dominant genres in prime-time television from the 1970s-1990s were what?






3. The intended effects of ads include what?






4. What is action/horror?






5. What is the process of flow?






6. Creators use the formula to do what?






7. Which type of violence is most prevalent on television?






8. 'Bad' language in the media is what?






9. What ethnicity is overrepresented on tv?






10. according to the textbook & fewer than one in every _____ television shows that present sexual content will have any mention of risks or responsibilities of unprotected sex.






11. Describe manifest effects?






12. What are some examples of where advertisements can be found?






13. What are the two types of intelligence?






14. What are the two types of intelligence?






15. What is the ability to be creative?






16. What are the six baseline influencing factors?






17. The three forces that have shaped the development of the interactive mass media






18. When a digital game has been designed well & it delivers an experience to players through what?






19. if you ever watch a newscast and come away with helpful information & you are experiencing what type of effect?






20. Media ownership has big impact on...






21. Over time & the government has been _______________ with regard to who controls the media






22. What are the two main components in the demographics pattern?






23. Example: after Dennis went to see a movie about The Holocaust & he became very sad about how inhumane man can be. What is this an example of?






24. What are the two types of process effects?






25. what types of audiences have marketers of digital games identified as?






26. Creators use the formula to do what?






27. _______________ are societal changes that occur over a long period of time.






28. what happens in the media concentration?






29. What is puffery?






30. what force competes against the ethnic of localism?






31. What is a wiki?






32. What are the four cognitive abilities?






33. What is an effect that happens during exposure to the media messages?






34. What occupation is more represented on tv?






35. What is subliminal advertising






36. Playing interactive video games & particularly MMORPGs...






37. What are the three states of personal factors in fluctuation?






38. according to the textbook & _____ are more likely to be represented in the television world than the real world.






39. What is the long-term behavioral effect?






40. What do interactive games have the power to do?






41. What are stereotypes on tv?






42. ______ are the influences we experience constantly from our exposure to media messages?






43. In tv & gays are what?






44. What are the two timing factors?






45. Like other media & the internet is now mature enough to suffer from...






46. What does the personal locus do?

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47. What did the Communications Act of 1934 require?






48. What are the two types of factors in fluctuation?






49. What is the natural ability to distinguish the singal and the noise in any message?






50. ________________ are used in entertainment content because it is a way for audience members to access information quickly when introduced to a character