Social Learning and Human Development
Model of human aggression that argues that cognition,
affect, and arousal mediate the effects of situational and individual personal variables on aggression
What is the general aggression model?
Theory that focuses on what people do with media and their reasons for using media
What is uses and gratifications theory?
Information processing theory poses that, most of the time, humans are _____________
What are information avoiders?
The ability to access, analyze, evaluate and communicate messages accurately and effectively
What is media literacy?
This term refers to the phenomenon that occurs when children's value as consumers overshadows their developmental processes
What is adultification?
A theory that exists to understand why people seek entertainment and the effects that result from it
What is entertainment theory?
This media theory explains way most people fear loss of social approval if they try to defend opinions that are losing support
What is the spiral of silence?
The theory that assumes that media does not simply present facts or information neutrally but presents information in a specific way for a specific purpose
What is framing theory?
The framing of certain violent actions as acceptable under certain circumstances and/or towards certain people in media
What are aggressive cues?
An audience that selects media to fulfill certain needs and interprets it in personal ways
What is an active audience?
Media don’t tell people "what to think" but they do
tell them ___________
What is "what to think about"?
Areas that do not have media outlets serving their information needs, resulting in an uninformed population
What are news deserts?
A theory that proposes that Media serves as a "best friend" and influences child behavior
What is the superpeer theory?
The type of gratification that comes from finding out about relevant events and conditions in immediate surroundings
What is information gratification?
This mass media effect explains why it is difficult for
media to convince partisans that their news coverage is balance rather than biased
What is the hostile media effect?
The developer of cultivation theory, which explains how Media shapes our worldview
Theory of learning through interaction with the environment that involves reciprocal causation of behavior, personal factors, and environmental factors
What is social cognitive theory?
The type of gratification used to reflect on the self by finding models of behavior and personal morals in media
What is personal identity gratification?
This theory assumes that increasing the flow of information into a social system is much more likely to benefit certain groups.
What is the knowledge gap theory?
The theory that people develop knowledge of the world in a social context and much of what we perceive as
reality depends on shared assumptions.
What is social constructionism?