Test your basic knowledge |

Media Literacy

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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. 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?






2. 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?






3. Describe baseline effects.






4. Give an example of the content of messages






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






6. What are the two types of media effects?






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






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






9. What is a physiological effect?






10. In tv & gays are what?






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






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






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






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






15. What did the Communications Act of 1934 require?






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






17. Example: Chris read a book about an incredible romance. the characters were beautiful & they never fought & and the weather was always perfect. after reading the book & chris's romantic relationship seemed lousy. What is this an example of?






18. what type of health patterns are there?






19. The number of ads for _______________ increases each year






20. What does attitudinal effects create and shape?






21. according to the textbook & fewer than one in every _____ television shows that present sexual content will have any mention of risks or responsibilities of unprotected sex.






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






23. When did megamergers become popular?






24. What eliminated the legal barrier to competition across markets?






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






26. You are asked to serve on a jury for a civil trial. because you have been watching CSI for years & you are thrilled to get to be a part of the trial. during the trial & there is no DNA evidence & like you expected there to be that convinces you of th






27. What is Web 2.0?






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






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






30. Where does the term wiki come from?






31. What are the six baseline influencing factors?






32. What is telescoping?






33. Many media effects are...






34. What is localism?






35. What are the two competing values?






36. In tv & gays are what?






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






38. What are the two types of thinking?






39. The internet is considered a viral spiral because it _________ innovation due to its network structure






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






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






42. What is one of the characteristics that differentiate mass media games or video games from other mass media?






43. The number of ads for _______________ increases each year






44. What are the three types of concentration?






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






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






47. What age is more represented on tv?






48. In the formula & What are the 2 constraints?






49. What is the ability to memorize facts?






50. What are the 3 subgenres of drama?