PCOL 440 EXAM WITH QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS 2024-2025
The biochemical that octopuses use to rapidly change color is
Melanin
Identify the most appropriate definition for propaganda.
Information designed to give people incorrect information, specific untruths
Identify the most appropriate definition for misinformation.
Claims that are false but are not deliberately designed to deceive
Identify the most appropriate definition for disinformation.
An extremely structured effort to deceive populations to believe an idea through the use
of purposely distorted information that is secretly leaked into the communication
process in order to deceive and manipulate.
Identify the most appropriate definition for implicature.
Defines what a sentence means, but not by virtue of what it literally says.
Which best describes the goal of Russian "Active Measures?"
Change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite their
abundance of information no one can come to a sensible conclusion in the interests of
defending themselves, their family, their community, and their country.
Why?
Name
,Who were the presidents of the US and Russia in 1987?
Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev
The first known major success of Russian Active Measure was convincing large
numbers of people that:
The United States invented HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in a US Army laboratory
Which 3 are not one of the "7 commandments" of Active Measures?:
Find fissures/splits in the target society
Create and distribute inspiring stories about the human condition
Create a huge outlandish lie
Wrap the lie around the kernel of truth
Hide your hand
Take responsibility/ownership for the content you create
The useful idiot
Deny everything
Hire only those w/ ethics and conscience and a concern for thy fellow traveler
The long game
Create and publish positive stories of the human condition
Take responsibility/ownership of content produced
Hire only those w/ ethics and conscience and a concern for thy fellow traveler
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The best definition for the term vaccine is
An inactivated or attenuated pathogen or a component of a pathogen-nucleic acid,
protein-that elicits a protective response of the immune system's cells.
Which of the following years is closest to when the first successful vaccination was
developed?
, 1800
Which of the following is NOT a kind of viral/bacterial vaccine:
- Live pathogen
-Live attenuated pathogen
-Inactivated pathogen
-Subunit of pathogen
-Toxoid
Live pathogen
Vaccines cause autism
False
The mRNA vaccines for Covid 19 are what kind of vaccine?
Subunit of pathogen
What protein is the mRNA in the Covid19 set up to express?
SARS CoV2 Spike protein
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