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Media Literacy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When does a digital game player get deeply immersed in the game and loses all track of time and place?






2. What are the three types of concentration?






3. What age is more represented on tv?






4. When people 'blame the media' for causing a tragic event & they are not taking into account all the factors that influence behavior and are not making...






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






6. What does the term telescoping refer to?

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7. What are the 3 developmental maturities?






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






9. What is our personal locus made up of?






10. If you watch an action packed movie and your heart races & you are experiencing what type of emotion?






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






12. What did the Communications Act of 1934 require?






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






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






15. Media ownership has big impact on...






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






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






18. What are the two types of intelligence?






19. Media ___________ in the same way other institutions do & such as parents & friends & education & or religion.






20. What are the three personal factors of fluctuation?






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






22. What are the four cognitive abilities?






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






24. What are the two types of thinking?






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






26. What is subliminal advertising






27. What is a belief that control of important institutions should be in the hands of many through decentralization?






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






29. Many media effects are...






30. when does immediate effects occur?






31. Popular criticism about advertising includes what?

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32. Like media programming companies & advertising agencies are also...






33. Describe product claims?






34. Name the two types of process effects?






35. What best reflects the effects the media has on us?






36. The intended effects of ads include what?






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






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






39. 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?






40. What is baseline effects?






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






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






43. Every day & our baseline of media effects what?






44. What is telescoping?






45. What are the three parts of efficiency?






46. What is the long-term behavioral effect?






47. What is fluctuation effect?






48. Give an example of the content of messages






49. What is a baseline effect?






50. the rationale for regulation in broadcasting is based on what?