Chapter 1
A specific statement or proposal that can be tested by means of gathering empirical evidence.
What is hypothesis?
This act allowed US Federalists to suppress pro-French voices.
What is the Sedition Act of 1798?
This woman wrote her doctoral dissertation on effects of consumption of media violence on behavior.
Who is Frances Fenton?
Albert Bandura's theory that in part says three different factors determine thought and behavior
Behavior, Personal characteristics, Environmental factors or events
What is Social Cognitive Theory?
This "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor is just a good ole country boy from down the road in Owensboro, KY. He also has a family member who was inducted into WKU Hall of Distinguished Alumni.
Who is Johnny Depp?
The researcher begins with a simple research question and collects data that describe a particular case, and then develops a theory based upon findings
What is inductive reasoning?
A couple acted out the cross country killings after watching this 1990's movie
What is "Natural Born Killers"?
This is selective; perceptions of same message vary
What is Attention?
This is where new information or observation of new behavior acts to restrain previously learned behavior
What are Inhibitory effects?
This singer-actress performed at the Super Bowl in 2023
Who is Rihanna?
Researchers often utilize several different methodologies for cumulative findings that yield more compelling results
What is triangulation?
When talking about indecent material, this New York newspaper copied England’s popular and profitable penny dailies that published titillating material about lowlifes
What is "The Sun"?
This man examined influence of mass media on public opinion during a presidential campaign.
He also worked with the two-step flow model of communication, expanded into multistep flow model
Who is Paul Lazarsfeld?
Bandura's study where children watched violent acts on film and imitated them, then committed other violent acts is an example of this effect.
What is Disinhibitory effects?
This singer's real name is Melissa Viviane Jefferson.
Who is Lizzo?
This type of research gauges respondent’s self-reported attitudes and tendencies toward antisocial or prosocial behaviors
What is survey research?
This book's portrayal of black slaves inspired sympathetic attitudes in readers. It was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This man is attributed with the five-question model: “Who says what in which channel to whom with what effects”?
Who is Harold Lasswell?
This is where past experiences are remembered and associated with new information
What is Cognitive Neoassociation?
This Hilltopper won an Olympic gold medal in swimming back in 2012.
Who is Claire Donahue?
"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind" was said by what late musician of the 1960s?
Who is Jim Morrison?
In the early 1900s, this type of journalism during “Progressive Era” exposed social ills and led to needed reforms in business practices, truth in advertising, labor policies, food industry
What is muckraking journalism?
Most social scientists assumed media effects were powerful using these two theories.
What is the "Bullet" and "Hypodermic needle" theories?
Priming is a three-step process of exposure, automatic appraisal, and secondary careful appraisal
What is General Affective Aggression Model?
This athlete held the record for most points scored in NBA history before it was broken by LeBron James earlier this year.
Who is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?