Media Literacy Approach MCQ

1. When reading an article in a newspaper, readers __________.

2. Vehicles are the means by which a s to audiences.

3. ______ is a set of perspectives that we actively use to expose ourselves to the mass media to process and interpret the meaning of the messages we encounter.

4. Facts is a discrete bit of information that contains ________ steps ?

5. A type of information that is characterized by rules and patterns about how individuals behave around other people is known as ____

6. The instruments that deliver information to us from the media

7. _____ is the skill of creating a brief, clear, and accurate description capturing the essence of a message in a significantly smaller number of words (or images, sounds, etc.) than the message itself

8. Synthesis is the skill of assembling information elements into an old structure to reveal old relationships among the elements.

9. Deduction is the skill of using general principles to explain particulars, typically with the use of______ reasoning.

10. The skill of inferring a pattern across a small set of elements and then generalizing the pattern to all elements in a larger set is known as

11. _______is the skill of determining which elements are alike in some way; determining how a group of elements are different from other groups of elements

12. The skill of judging the value of an element; the judgment is made by comparing a message element to a standard

13. The skill of breaking down a message into meaningful elements

14. ____ is a person’s plan for building knowledge structures about the media along with the psychic energy needed to execute the plan