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Media Literacy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is subliminal advertising






2. What are the two competing values?






3. Issues of concern regarding merger activity includes what?






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






5. It is clear that the media is completely controlled by what?






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






7. What marital status is more represented on tv?






8. What is puffery?






9. Your _______ when you consume media content can alter your perception of and reaction to the content?






10. Describe baseline effects.






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






12. What is a wiki?






13. Consumers use the formula to do what?






14. What does a cognitive-effect means?






15. What is baseline effects?






16. What is the ability to be creative?






17. Unintentional effects often occur when we are in a state of...






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






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






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






21. Values that are reflected in entertainment messages include what?






22. What are the 3 developmental maturities?






23. When does visible stereotyping occur?






24. interactive media games are In what stage of development?






25. When did megamergers become popular?






26. Many media effects are...






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






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






29. Name the two types of process effects?






30. Although African Americans are represented on television & portrayals rarely include....






31. What is the long-term behavioral effect?






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






33. Explain localism






34. What are the four controversial content elements?






35. What are examples of baseline factors?






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






37. Describe manifest effects?






38. When did the innovation stage for interactive media games begin?






39. What must happen during television before commercial break?






40. What is our personal locus made up of?






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






42. Concentration & consolidation & and centralization challenges and potentially retrains the ethnic of...






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






44. According to the _______________ is the most challenging medium for telling stories






45. What are the four cognitive abilities?






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






47. The number of ads for _______________ increases each year






48. When does visible stereotyping occur?






49. What are the four cognitive abilities?






50. What are the six baseline influencing factors?