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Quiz #4 w/Correct answers
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- Tcom 4887
- Institution
- Youngstown State University
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1. This is a theoretical approach that concevies of social systems as living organismswhose various parts work, or function, together to maintain essential process.
a. Normative
b. Functionalism
c. Constructivism
d. Structuralism
2. Charles Wright identified what have become known as the four functions of media.
Provide TWO of them.
a. Entertainment
b. Survailence
c. Correlation
d. Transmission
3. Theory that as news about an issue inundates people, they become apathetic to it,
substituting knowing about that issue for action on it.
a. Cathartic function
b. Lethargic conditioning
c. Narcotizing dysfunction
d. Dispiritedness syndrome
4. Your professor showed this model in class describing the communication process.
Identify the developer of this model.
a. Write - Merton
b. Mendleso - Schramm
c. Hobert - Garrett
d. Shannon - Weaver
5. Form an engineering subfield, this is the study of regulation and control in complex
machines and systems.
a. Systems theory
b. Cybernetics
c. Transmissional theory
d. Schematic analysis
6. In regards to research paradigms, researchers in the united states primarily use what
approach?
a. Social science/Positivism approaches
b. Interpretive research
c. Critical research approaches
d. Cultural research approaches
7. In her oscar acceptance speech, Michele Yeoh alluded to two types of representation
issues. We discussed these in class. What are the two representation issues?
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