Media Literacy Vocab Quiz 1

What is schema?

• A thought pattern related to an experience or event

• A type of JSON database for storing media

• The way we think about somethig

• Whether or not we already know about something

Schemas make it easy to understand complex ideas in an unbiased way

• True

• False

What is the law of closure? (Choose all that are correct)

• The chance to finish a task before starting another one

• The brain's ability to "jump to conclusions" to complete an idea

• Our desire to know something, even if it's an oversimplified form

• The possibility of seeing something that isn't actually there

How does prior knowledge work with the "law of closure"?

• If we have no prior knowledge, we are more likely to use the law of closure

• There is no connection between the two

• We only find what we already know

• We use what we already know to predict the outcome, or final idea

How does prior knowledge and the law of closure make us vulnerable to misinformation?

What is false memory?

• A memory that is wrong

• A kind of memory where our brain tries to "fill in a gap" with something that seems right. But we are not sure

• The kind of memory where we are not sure

• A memory that has been altered over time to represent a totally different idea

What is easier?

• Closing a gap

• Correcting a misunderstanding

• Creating a memory

• Changing a memory

Which of the following is a strategy the brain uses to save energy?

• Confirmation bias

• Prior knowledge

• False memory

• Media Literacy

How does the brain use "confirmation bias" to save energy?

Which is the correct definition of information satisficing?

• When the information we find is inherently satisfying

• When we do research to find the correct information regarding an idea

• When we're not concerned with the correct answer, we accept one of the first answers or ideas we find.

• A problematic idea where we want to know everything about everything