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Media Literacy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are the three states of personal factors in fluctuation?






2. to end up at the top of a Google search & a website must what?






3. What is efficiency?

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4. If you cry during a film & you are experiencing what type of effect?






5. When does visible stereotyping occur?






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






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






8. What is the ability to memorize facts?






9. Issues of concern regarding merger activity includes what?






10. What are the 3 developmental maturities?






11. What is the ability to be creative?






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






13. What are the 3 subgenres of drama?






14. What is telescoping?






15. What are the 3 subgenres of drama?






16. The number of ads for _______________ increases each year






17. Where does the term wiki come from?






18. What is the most prevalent media effect?






19. What is a baseline effect?






20. What socioeconomic status is more represented?






21. What does the term telescoping refer to?

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22. What are the two timing factors?






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






24. When does invisible stereotyping occur?






25. when one media company buys smaller companies of the same type & what type of concentration is this?






26. When a media company buys a combination of other media or non media businesses & This is what type of concentration?






27. What did the Communications Act of 1934 require?






28. What are the three parts of efficiency?






29. What is action/horror?






30. What are the four cognitive abilities?






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






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






33. Explain localism






34. What is the process of flow?






35. What are stereotypes on tv?






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






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






38. The pattern of the population of television characters is ______ the pattern of people in the real world






39. What are the six main criticisms of advertising?






40. What are the two types of intelligence?






41. example: when Ryan listened to patriotic music & he got shivers up his spine. This is an example of what?






42. Describe baseline effects.






43. What is it called when a digital game player is focused on steps in a process to a greater accomplishment?






44. What are the two main forms of stereotyping?






45. 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?






46. ________ are beneficial because they allow for the creation of collective knowledge






47. When one media company buys companies that are buyers or suppliers to create integration in the production and distribution of messages & what type of concentration is this?






48. What does localism serve the needs of?






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






50. What are characteristics that have shaped the development of interactive media?