Test week revision Flashcards
What constitutes media?
Within the context of this module media can be construed as all things gathered within the framework of mass communication (broadcasting, publishing, and the internet), collectively. This practically denotes any form of cultural/social/individual expression that is circulated on both a macro or a micro level.
Metacognition
Refers to thinking about thinking, examining the processes by which we think about and arrive at our own beliefs.
Critical thinking
Can be defined as applying systematic logic and doubt to any claim or belief, it is thinking carefully and rigorously.
Age of information
Internet and vast amount of info and data available to us
Age of misinformation
We are so connected with the media network that we get information that might not be accurate or true
True/ False
Our brains have a deceptive nature
True
Logical fallacies
We tend to make connections that are logical, but not necessarily valid
True/ False
Critical thinking is a defence mechanism
True
3 human needs that can negate our critical thinking skills
Desire for control
Desire for meaning
Desire for self-esteem
We would like to think that we can exert some control over…
Ourselves
Our environment
Events that happen to us
Cognitive dissonance
A state of mind that is caused by the act of holding two beliefs at the same time that are mutually exclusive, or that conflict with each other. We don’t like the feeling of this cognitive dissonance, so it motivates us to resolve this conflict.
Goals of theory
Describe Explain Understand Predict & Control Reform
Pluralism
A condition or system in which two or more states, groups, principles, sources of authority, etc., coexist.
Epistemology
The theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope, ad he distinction between justified belief and opinion
2 approaches when epistemology is applied to theory
Objective approach
Subjective experience
