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EXAM 1 Flashcards

1
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Cognitive Effect

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Concerns how you think, knowledge and beliefs

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2
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Behavioral Effect

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concerns what you do, concrete responses to messages. Observable

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Affective Effect

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Concerns how you feel, generates an attitude

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4
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Content-Irrelevant Effect

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Time/Activity displacement effects, taking time away from…

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5
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Content-Dependent Effect

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Watch violent movie -> becoming aggressive

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6
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Intended Effect

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Persuasive campaigns

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7
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Unintended Effect

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The effect was not intended by the media producers

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8
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Micro Effects

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smaller individual effects probably?

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9
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Macro Effects

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Effects could have societal information

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10
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Long-Term Effect

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enduring, cumulative, delayed effects

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Short-Term Effect

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Changes take place right after exposure to the message

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12
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Encoding

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Process of message construction

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13
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Decoding

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Audience and effects, understanding, interpreting, and applying

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14
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Synthesis

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any given media influence can be described as a combination of different dimensions of effects

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15
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Why do people study mass Comm?

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application to public policy

benefits for media consumers

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16
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Federal Agencies

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FCC
FTC
The Commission on Civil Rights
House and Senate subcommittees
Special Presidential Commissions
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17
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Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

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Use of broadcast waves/ signals

Content diversity/ sex and violence in the media

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

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advertising

media ownership concentration

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Three Criteria for Causaity

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correlation
time order
nonspuriousness

20
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Conditional Effects

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Moderators
Different people are effected by the same content
Categories

21
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Indirect Effects

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Mediator

media use generates changes in a variable, which in turn produces changes in dependent variable

22
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Cross-sectional survey

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surveying a single sample of some population at one time

23
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Longitudinal Survey

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Surveying at multiple times

Trend Survey
Cohort Survey
Panel Survey

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Trend Survey

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Uncovering over-time trends in a society

25
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Cohort Survey

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Uncovering changes occurring to a generational group over time
The individuals surveyed are not the same individuals but belong to the same generational cohort

26
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Panel Survey

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uncovering changes occurring to individuals
Long term media effects
retention is an issue
can be costly

27
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Treatment Group

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IV is different in this group

28
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Non-Treatment group

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Control group

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Randomization

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randomly select participants rule so the groups are equivalent

30
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Manipulation of IV

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in order to see whether the changes in IV lead to corresponding changes in DV

31
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Comm Research for Public Policy

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usually paid for by FCC

32
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Comm Research for Producers

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can help media people make their ads persuasive

33
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Comm Research for Audiences

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Can provide parents and educators with important info about media, and helps consumers understand how to mitigate negative effects

34
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Comm Research for Theory Building

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helps understand why and how media effects occur

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Folk Wisdom

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loaded with “truth” and considered accepted knowledge (not always valid)

36
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Authority

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Truth is established through a trusted source such as religious leaders, gov officials, and experts

37
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Science

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Logical, Systematic, Empirical, helps us avoid human errors

38
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Goals of Science

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Explanation and understanding, prediction, and control

39
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Selective Observation

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tend to focus only on certain events that support our interests and ignore others

40
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overgeneralization

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take one or a few observations and say it represents a group that it doesnt

41
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Ways to get around human error

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anonymous peer reviewers and representative samples, replications

42
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Mystification

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belief that certain things are unknowable

43
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Spuriousness

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caused by a third variable

44
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conditional

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not everyone may be affected the same way, same media can cause different effects

45
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Meta-Analysis

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review previous studies on the same topic, synthesize the findings

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