chapter 2

According to the book, media literacy refers to the ability to access and process ______.

• newspapers, magazines, radio, and television
• fictional books and academic books
• video games and social media content
• all of the above

______ refers to the ability to process two-dimensional pictures of the three-dimensional world.

• Media
• Visual Literacy
• Story
• Computer

Media literacy ______.

• stimulates us to adapt to our changing world
• makes us ignore changes to the world
• encourages us to deny that changes to the world are happening
• causes us to ignore media messages

The skill of evaluation refers to ______.

• breaking down a message into meaningful elements
• determining which elements are alike in some way
• judging the value of an element
• using general principles to explain particulars

You are given an assignment to read a piece of long-form journalism and write a paragraph summarizing its key points. Which skill does this exemplify?

• grouping
• abstraction
• evaluation
• deduction

The breaking down of a message into meaningful elements is called ______.

• analysis
• evaluation
• grouping
• deduction

Padma is studying to be a vet. She reads a story about a dog who is supposedly learning to “talk” using buttons with English words on them. While the dog is cute, the idea of the dog “talking” in this way does not match what Padma knows about animal behavior and communication. She doesn’t share the article with her friends. Padma is demonstrating the skill of ______.

• deduction
• evaluation
• grouping
• analysis

Using deductive reasoning, complete the following syllogism, All birds have wings. Chickens are a kind of bird. Therefore, ______.

• chickens can fly
• chickens have wings
• birds are chickens
• birds can’t fly

You just watched the entire series of “The Queen’s Gambit.” Your friend is interested in the show, but asks you for a summary before they decide to watch it. You are using the skill of ______.

• analysis
• grouping
• abstracting
• induction

Your personal locus is composed of your ______.

• knowledge of the media
• opinions about the media
• goals and drives
• social influences