The Study Quiz For The Tc101 Exam
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What the title says. 50 questions, all multiplechoice/truefalse.
- 1.
- A.
Source, Message, Channel, Receiver
- B.
Source, Music, Camel, Ridicule
- C.
Source, Message, Cable, Receiver
- D.
Sour, Massage, Chain, Retractor
- 2.The source is....
- A.
The one who's yapping at you
- B.
What someone is yapping
- C.
How someone is yapping something
- D.
The one receiving the yapping
- 3.The Message is....
- A.
The one who's yapping at you
- B.
What someone is yapping
- C.
How someone is yapping something
- D.
The one receiving the yapping
- 4.The Channel is....
- A.
The one who's yapping at you
- B.
What someone is yapping
- C.
How someone is yapping something
- D.
The one receiving the yapping
- 5.The Receiver is....
- A.
The one who's yapping at you
- B.
What someone is yapping
- C.
How someone is yapping something
- D.
The one receiving the yapping
- 6.Asynchronous Communication
- A.
Communication that occurs at the same time
- B.
Communication that occurs at different times
- 7.Synchronous Communication
- A.
Communication that occurs at the same time
- B.
Communication that occurs at different times
- 8.Mediated synchronous communication isn't possible
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.Mediated sychronous communcation is possible.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.Media literacy is the ability to...
- A.
Assess, Analyze, Evaluate, and Create media.
- B.
Analyze, Eat, Cremate, and Stuff stuff.
- C.
Be literate in media
- 11.All media messages are constructed.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.Media Messages are constructed using a creative language with its own rules
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.Different people experience the same media exactly the same way.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 14.Media are just there for the sake of being there and aren't embedding any sort of agenda.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 15.Most media messages are organized to gain profit and/or power
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 16.The Hypodermic Needle theory implies that there's an opinion leader where you get all your information.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 17.The Multistep theory implies that there's an opinion leader where you get all your information.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 18.Selective process- We look at media that reinforces our own beliefs and avoid media that challenges those beliefs.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 19.Social learning- teaches us how scary the world is.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 20.Cultivation- The media teaches us how scary the world is and we believe what the media tell us to think.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 21.Priming- taking an event and looking at it through a certain perspective.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 22.Agenda Setting- The media doesn’t tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 23.Framing- taking an event and looking at it through a certain perspective.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 24.Uses and Gratification: Using the media to experience some sort of emotional or physical outlet.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 25.Catharsis- Using the media to experience some sort of emotional or physical outlet.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 26.
- A.
In the lab
- B.
In the field
- C.
In the dark
- D.
In McDonel
- 27.
- A.
In the lab
- B.
In the field
- C.
In the dark
- D.
In McDonel
- 28.Content Analysis- Analyzing content for strange anomalies.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 29.Causation can be determined by surveys.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 30.Correlation doesn’t equal causation. There has to be a cause & effect.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 31.Cause and effect happens when you are exposed to something and then react to that something.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 32.Correlation means...
- A.
Two things usually go together, but they don’t cause each other.
- B.
Two things always go together and they cause each other
- 33.Ethnography is when...
- A.
Someone studies ethnicities
- B.
Someone goes into the field and observes things
- C.
Someone gets their ethnic background checked.
- 34.Technological Determinism- the technology determines the culture.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 35.Hegemony is when...
- A.
People say that everything has gone down the tubes
- B.
People say that everything is fine in order to maintain the status quo, which then keeps them in power.
- C.
People run 200 miles in a circle
- D.
People say the Seven Dirty Words
- 36.Feminism/ethnic- white males are in charge but they're trying to get everyone else on equal ground. They do this by providing negative reinforcement against stereotypes.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 37.Economic- exploiting the media to make money
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 38.Political- exploiting the media for power
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 39.The independent variable is...
- A.
The variable that's measured in an experiment
- B.
The variable that's manipulated in an experiment
- 40.The dependent variable is...
- A.
The variable that's measured in an experiment
- B.
The variable that's manipulated in an experiment
- 41.The Payne studies concluded that these people ended up getting lower grades, would be less cooperative, and socially awkward.
- A.
Musicians
- B.
Bookworms
- C.
Moviegoers
- 42.
- A.
Alma will bring the nuclear apocalypse
- B.
The media ruins our children
- C.
Alma will have your babies
- D.
The media strengthen and bolster our children.
- 43.Zenger was accused of spreading libel about the government but they couldn't convict him. Why?
- A.
He threatened all of the officials families
- B.
All of the things he printed were true
- C.
He had a sudden heart attack and died
- D.
He was assassinated before the trial could take place
- 44.Check all of the following that are considered to be True Threats
- A.
Yelling 'Fire!' in a crowded theatre
- B.
Saying you disagree with the government
- C.
Saying you're going to kill the president
- D.
Protesting
- E.
Inciting a riot or other acts of violence
- 45.Sedition says that you can talk about, and actually go about overthrowing the government.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 46.Libel is untrue, defaming speech.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 47.Slander is untrue, defaming speech.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 48.
- A.
Publication
- B.
Identification
- C.
Defamatory
- D.
False
- E.
Fault (not know it was false)
- F.
All of the above
- 49.
- A.
Opinion
- B.
Satire
- C.
No actual malice
- D.
All of the above
- E.
Ignorance
- 50.The Gutenburg Bible was published in 1457
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 51.Check all the following ways that the industrial age impacted literacy
- A.
People moved out of the cities
- B.
People moved into the cities
- C.
People stopped reading and fell into idiocy
- D.
More people wanted to learn things
- E.
More people started reading
- 52.Yellow Journalism was journalism that attempted to expose awful things.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 53.Muckraking attempted to expose awful things.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 54.The internet has bolstered the newspaper industry, this is largely due to the change in business models in the industry.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 55.Edison invented...
- A.
The cylindric phonograph
- B.
The wireless telegraph
- C.
Wireless technology
- D.
The Vacuum tube
- 56.Marconi invented...
- A.
The cylindric phonograph
- B.
The wireless telegraph
- C.
Wireless technology
- D.
The Vacuum tube
- 57.Tesla invented...
- A.
The cylindric phonograph
- B.
The wireless telegraph
- C.
Wireless technology
- D.
The Vacuum tube
- 58.De Forest invented...
- A.
The cylindric phonograph
- B.
The wireless telegraph
- C.
Wireless technology
- D.
The Vacuum tube
- 59.After the disaster of the Titanic, telegraph operators had to run 24/7
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 60.Lots of innovations happened in WWI because the Navy released them to the public.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 61.Sarnoff wanted to ban the radio and television from the home.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 62.How are the Frequencies in the Electromagnetic Spectrum divided?
- A.
Amateurs are at the bottom, everyone else has a limited amount of space.
- B.
Nobody gets any space
- C.
There's free space for everybody!
- 63.Who rules the airwaves?
- A.
The FIC
- B.
The FDR
- C.
The FRC
- D.
The FCC
- E.
Both the FRC and the FCC (they're the same thing)
- 64.The FCC can take away your broadcasting license if you don't follow their rules.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 65.Analog measures the density of the wave while FM measures the height of the wave.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 66.O&O stands for Out and Open
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 67.The Radio Act of 1927 grouped all of the frequencies together and allowed networks unlimited amounts of stations in each market.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 68.The Telecommunication Act of 1996 allowed companies to own up to eight stations in each market; esentially repealing the Radio Act of 1927.
- A.
True
- B.
False
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