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Media Literacy

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What did the Communications Act of 1934 require?






2. What is a mystery?






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






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






5. The intended effects of ads include what?






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






7. What is baseline effects?






8. Describe product claims?






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






10. What are the two timing factors?






11. Describe manifest effects?






12. What are the two types of thinking?






13. What is action/horror?






14. What is WOW?






15. What is the way people group and classify things?






16. What is the natural ability to distinguish the signal and the noise in any message?






17. What are the two types of media effects?






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






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






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






21. Long-term effects are ________ to notice than immediate effects.






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






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






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






25. What must happen during television before commercial break?






26. What is a wiki?






27. What are examples of baseline factors?






28. What does a cognitive-effect means?






29. What are the four cognitive abilities?






30. What is the middleware market?






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






32. What are the two competing values?






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






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






35. Give an example of the content of messages






36. What age is more represented on tv?






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






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






39. What was the biggest deal between any two media companies?






40. Explain localism






41. What happens in the media deregulation?






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






43. What are the six main criticisms of advertising?






44. What does localism serve the needs of?






45. 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...






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






47. Give an example of the content of messages






48. When does visible stereotyping occur?






49. What is our personal locus made up of?






50. What are the two major effects from the telecommunications competition & deregulation act of 1996?