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Media Literacy

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1. Name the two types of process effects?






2. In what 6 ways is advertising deceptive?






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






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






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






6. when does immediate effects occur?






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






8. What is the most prevalent media effect?






9. What are the two types of media effects?






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






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






12. What are the four cognitive abilities?






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






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






15. Example: Jacob played a video game of crime life. He then joined a gang and pulled a knife on a police officer. What is this an example of?






16. What does localism serve the needs of?






17. What is the ability to memorize facts?






18. What are the two types of intelligence?






19. What was it when ownership rules were relaxed?






20. When does visible stereotyping occur?






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






22. What happens in the media deregulation?






23. The video industry has 'a good deal of vertical integration'. What does this mean?






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






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






26. What are stereotypes on tv?






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






28. What is the ability to be creative?






29. What marital status is more represented on tv?






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






31. What are the four genres in the formula?






32. What occupation is more represented on tv?






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






34. What do media exposure habits focus its attention on?






35. What is tragedy used for?






36. What is the process of flow?






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






38. What is localism?






39. What are the two types of responsibilites in advertising?






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






41. What is the middleware market?






42. _______________ frequently occur when you are in a state of automaticity.






43. When does visible stereotyping occur?






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






45. What is the long-term emotional effect?






46. _______________ frequently occur when you are in a state of automaticity.






47. What are the two types of responsibilites in advertising?






48. What is our personal locus made up of?






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






50. What are the four genres in the formula?