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Media Literacy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. if you ever watch a newscast and come away with helpful information & you are experiencing what type of effect?






2. What is telescoping?






3. There is a trend of ______________ of ownership in the media






4. What was significant about the Communications Act 1934?

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5. What occupation is more represented on tv?






6. What are the 3 developmental maturities?






7. Name the two types of process effects?






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






9. What are the two timing factors?






10. What is the long-term behavioral effect?






11. 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.






12. Where does the term wiki come from?






13. What are the three elements to a general story formula?






14. according to the textbook & which occupation is the most prevalent in the television world?






15. What are the three personal factors of fluctuation?






16. People who have a ________________ have more awareness of the effects process






17. What was the first form of media games?






18. There is a trend of ______________ of ownership in the media






19. What does a cognitive-effect means?






20. Popular criticism about advertising includes what?

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21. In what way (s) does advertising make us too materialistic?






22. A macro-type media effect refers to what?






23. What does the term telescoping refer to?

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24. In tv & gays are what?






25. Television programmers are essentially ____________ and fearful of offending viewers & so they present content that they believe reflects mainstream American values






26. What government organization monitors tv and radio programming to determine if it is obscene or not?






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






28. What are the two types of media effects?






29. Name the two types of process effects?






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






31. What are the two types of process effects?






32. What does the term telescoping refer to?

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33. What are the four genres in the formula?






34. What is a baseline effect?






35. When does invisible stereotyping occur?






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






37. What are the two types of thinking?






38. What two types of information is cognitive made up of?






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






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






41. The intended effects of ads include what?






42. What are the two timing factors?






43. What socioeconomic status is more represented?






44. In the formula & What are the 2 constraints?






45. what force competes against the ethnic of localism?






46. What eliminated the legal barrier to competition across markets?






47. People with the ___________________ learn the most from the media






48. The business trend to consolidate has grown stronger than the government's impulse to...






49. Describe fluctuation effects.






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