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Media Literacy

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






2. What is flow?






3. Describe baseline effects.






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 do media exposure habits focus its attention on?






6. What are the four cognitive abilities?






7. What is the ability to memorize facts?






8. What percent of a typical newspaper is advertising?






9. 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?






10. What are the three types of concentration?






11. What happens in the media deregulation?






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






13. What must happen during television before commercial break?






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






15. What ethnicity is overrepresented on tv?






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






17. What does MMORPG stand for?






18. What are the six baseline influencing factors?






19. Name the two types of process effects?






20. What are the 3 subgenres of drama?






21. What is flow?






22. What is WOW?






23. What are the four types of niche audiences?






24. What is subliminal advertising






25. What is a mystery?






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






27. The media can have long and short term effects on what?






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






29. What are the four cognitive abilities?






30. What are the two long-term attitudinal effects?






31. In order to appeal to audiences & most stories begin with what?






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






33. What are the two types of intelligence?






34. on television & three-quarters of all characters are between the ages of 20 and 50. which age group is the most imbalanced in terms of representation on television?






35. What are the two types of factors in fluctuation?






36. What does localism serve the needs of?






37. The number of ads for _______________ increases each year






38. What is the long-term emotional effect?






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






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






41. what force competes against the ethnic of localism?






42. 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...






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






44. What are the three parts of efficiency?






45. What is a physiological effect?






46. What was the first form of media games?






47. Give an example of the cognitive complexity of content






48. if you ever watch a newscast and come away with helpful information & you are experiencing what type of effect?






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






50. Describe manifest effects?