Primary or Secondary?
Persuasion Techniques
Evaluating Sources
The Role of the Media
Misinformation & Bias
100
An interview conducted this week with an eyewitness who saw a historical event occur would be which type of source?
Primary Source
100
This persuasion technique uses ordinary-looking people or politicians doing everyday activities to show they are "just like you".
Plain Folks
100
This is a statement that answers questions like who, where, when, why, and/or how and can be provide true or false.
A Fact
100
In this role, the media stands guard to keep an eye on the government and expose wrongdoings by those in power.
Media as a Watchdog
100
This type of bias refers to focusing only on information that confirms what you already believe and ignoring information that challenges your view.
Confirmation Bias
200
The new Netflix documentary, The American Experiment, which explores the founding of the U.S. is what type of source?
Secondary Source
200
Which persuasion technique is being used?
Transfer
200
Words like "best", "worst", "I believe", or "delicious"being used in an article or headline are key clues that the statement is expressing this...
An opinion
200
As a gatekeeper, the media decides which stories are important enough to pass through to the public and which ones get left out because they are looking to make a profit. Which role is this?
Media as a Business
200
Media bias often occurs because media outlets are made up of humans or because they lean towards one of these two major sides of the political spectrum...
liberal (Democrat) and/or conservative (Republican)
300
The infamous painting, Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851) by Emanuel Leutze, is an example of which type of source?
Secondary Source
300
This persuasion technqiue uses simple, clever slogans that appeal to emotions and show the subject in a positive light, with little to no actual facts.
Glittering Generalities
300
When evaluating the reliability of a historical source, you must consider this group (the intended recipients)
The Audience
300
By choosing which issues to report on, the media acts as an agenda-setter, determining what topics end up on the _______ __________?
Public Agenda
300
Headlines that use sensationalism and exaggerated, emotional language to trick people into clicking on fake or misleading stories are commonly called this.
Click-bait
400
An advertisement published in a town newspaper on the day of a local festival in 1910 is which type of source?
Primary source
400
This persuasion technique presents only positive facts for one side and damaging facts for the other to give the illusion of a balanced argument.
Card Stacking
400
When evaluating sources we need to consider five different factors, as we did with the lunchroom fight. Name the five factors.
Interest location time evidence plausibility
400
Because television news needs to be fast-paced and exciting to retain viewers, complex stories are often shortened into quick, 15-second clips called...
Sound bites
400
This phenomenon occurs when Publication A prints misinformation, Publication B reprints it, and Publication A then cites Publication B as its source.
Circular Reporting
500
What is one major advantage of using secondary sources over primary sources when conducting research?
Secondary sources often combine information from multiple accounts and provide a broader perspective than primary sources.
500
What do we call biased or misleading information spread intentionally to persuade an audience or promote a political cause?
Propaganda
500
When ecaluating a source's credibility, one test we learned about what the CRAAP test. What does the acronym CRAAP stand for? (each letter = a word)
Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose
500
Unlike commericial for-profit networks, this non-commercial television network is an example of public media that does not rely on selling ad space.
PBS (Public Broadcasting System)
500
What are the three ways to combat confirmation bias?
1. Recognize that you have bias.
2. Be willing to accept you don't know everything.
3. Research the opposing perspective.