Chapter 12: Technology and Media in Everyday Life

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. When it is said that people often use two or more media systems simultaneously, the chapter refers to this activity as ______.

a. simultaneous media use

b. concurrent media use

c. party media use

d. double-talk

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Chapter Introduction

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. It was feared that the introduction of which new technology would rot children’s brains?

a. Video games

b. Radio

c. Comic books

d. Television

Learning Objective: 12.1: Explain how people generally perceive technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cave Drawings and Other Key Concerns

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Self-disclosure on social networking sites online differs from face-to-face (FTF) self-disclosure because ______.

a. much more self-disclosure happens FTF

b. online self-disclosure happens much more gradually than in FTF interactions

c. online self-disclosure happens much more quickly than in FTF interactions

d. self-disclosure rarely happens online

Learning Objective: 12.4: Explain how online communication influences relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Public Disclosure

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. The use of smartphones can shape and affect relationships because ______.

a. giving or denying your smartphone number to someone does not imply relational boundaries

b. constant connection through smartphone calls implies the relationship is not important

c. smartphones allow people to share experiences even when physically separated

d. smartphones rarely are used for social coordination

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how cell phones influence relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Shared Experience

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Midcourse adjustment, one form of microcoordinating social interactions through smartphones, typically involves ______.

a. adjusting previously scheduled meeting times

b. ignoring previously scheduled meeting times

c. progressively defining when and where to encounter someone through multiple calls

d. changing plans once someone has already set out for the encounter

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how cell phones influence relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Coordination

Difficulty Level: Hard

6. Iterative coordination, one form of microcoordinating social interactions through smartphones, typically involves ______.

a. adjusting previously scheduled meeting times

b. ignoring previously scheduled meeting times

c. progressively defining when and where to encounter someone through multiple calls or messages

d. changing plans once someone has already set out for the encounter

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how cell phones influence relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Coordination

Difficulty Level: Hard

7. Softening of schedules, one form of microcoordinating social interactions through smartphones, typically involves ______.

a. adjusting previously scheduled meeting times

b. ignoring previously scheduled meeting times

c. progressively defining when and where to encounter someone through multiple calls

d. changing plans once someone has already set out for the encounter

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how cell phones influence relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Coordination

Difficulty Level: Hard

8. Which relational need includes enabling people to establish and enact specific relational roles, expectations, and boundaries through the shared use of technology and media?

a. Promoting interaction

b. Enacting and evaluating roles

c. Withdrawing from interactions

d. Differentiating relationships

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Use of Technology and Media Is a Shared Relational Activity

Difficulty Level: Hard

9. Which relational need includes enabling people to distinguish particular relationships from others through the shared use of technology and media?

a. Withdrawing from interactions

b. Enacting and evaluating roles

c. Differentiating relationships

d. Promoting interaction

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Use of Technology and Media Is a Shared Relational Activity

Difficulty Level: Hard

10. Which of these technologies is able to allow a person to engage in synchronous communication?

a. Skype

b. E-mail

c. IM

d. Facebook

Learning Objective: 12.4: Explain how online communication influences relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Explaining the Benefits

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Face-to-face (FTF) interactions, which happen in real time and do not delay message sending/receiving, are referred to as being ______.

a. synchronous

b. nonsynchronous

c. asynchronous

d. monosynchronous

Learning Objective: 12.4: Explain how online communication influences relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Explaining the Benefits

Difficulty Level: Hard

12. Text-based online interactions, which can be close to happening in real time but still have some delay in message sending/receiving, are referred to as being ______.

a. synchronous

b. nonsynchronous

c. asynchronous

d. monosynchronous

Learning Objective: 12.4: Explain how online communication influences relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Explaining the Benefits

Difficulty Level: Hard

13. Which of the media equation research findings suggests that people like computers that offer them praise more than computers that offer no evaluation?

a. Politeness

b. Pretentiousness

c. Personality

d. Flattery

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Companionship and Relational Satisfaction From the Actual Use of Technology and Media

Difficulty Level: Hard

14. Which of the media equation research findings suggests that, when asked to evaluate a computer while using the same computer to type their responses, people responded much more positively than when typing their responses on a different computer?

a. Pretentiousness

b. Politeness

c. Flattery

d. Personality

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Companionship and Relational Satisfaction From the Actual Use of Technology and Media

Difficulty Level: Hard

15. People who use technology and media to enrich already-satisfied social and personal lives use it as which of the following?

a. A way to avoid other personal relationships

b. A compensation for a personal relationship

c. A substitution for a personal relationship

d. An alternative to a personal relationship

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Technology and Media Function as Alternatives to Personal Relationships

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. The learned ability to access, interpret, and evaluate media products is known as ______.

a. media literacy

b. being a geek

c. being nerdy

d. media substitution

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Talk About Technology and Media Promotes the Development of Media Literacy

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. A compilation of your technology and media preferences (and general use of technology and media) that informs others about who you are as a person or at least the person you are trying to project is known as ______.

a. your web address

b. your Facebook page

c. your Twitter account

d. your technology and media profile

Learning Objective: 12.4: Explain how online communication influences relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Talk About Technology and Media Enables Identity Construction

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. People check their phones approximately ______ times each day on average.

a. 47

b. 67

c. 77

d. 87

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Chapter Introduction

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. ______ refers to the unique management of social interaction made possible through cell phones.

a. overcoordination

b. subcoordination

c. coordination

d. microcoordination

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how cell phones influence relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Coordination

Difficulty Level: Medium

Multiple Response

1. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. When a new technology is introduced in a society, which of the following are typical reactions?

a. It is framed as something that will save the world.

b. It is framed as something that is intrusive and threatening.

c. It elicits feelings of concern and anxiety.

d. It tends to be evaluated according to standards and criteria associated with previously existing technology.

Learning Objective: 12.1: Explain how people generally perceive technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cave Drawings and Other Key Concerns

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following does the chapter include as relational technologies?

a. iPods

b. Smartphones

c. Twitter

d. Tablets

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how cell phones influence relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Constructing Identities Using Smartphones

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. How does the selection of ringtones provide meaning to the construction of identities?

a. They often announce your preferences to others about your choice of music or selected dialogue.

b. They signal to others that you do not want to draw attention to yourself.

c. They often provide humor.

d. They are based on how a person wants to be perceived by others.

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how cell phones influence relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Ringtones

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Smartphones are changing how people communicate with one another. Which of the following demonstrate the impact of smartphones on interactions among people?

a. Constant connection and availability

b. Boundaries and closeness

c. Shared experience

d. Social coordination

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how cell phones influence relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Relating Through Smartphones

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. What do the authors mean when they say identity construction on social networking sites tends to be quite strategic?

a. Users put thought into their comments and profiles.

b. Online communication gives people more time to develop their thoughts and actions.

c. People consider whether or not to remain tagged in the photographs of others.

d. People only leave complimentary comments because they don’t want to be judged negatively.

Learning Objective: 12.4: Explain how online communication influences relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Strategic

Difficulty Level: Hard

6. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following are cited as consequences of online communication?

a. Geographically dispersed social networks

b. Feeling more isolated

c. Increased interaction with friends and family

d. A lack of increase in the number of core ties

Learning Objective: 12.4: Explain how online communication influences relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Maintaining Relationships and Social Networks

Difficulty Level: Hard

7. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Select the positive characteristics of social networking sites.

a. They offer a list of connections that help make people more real and available.

b. Participation is easy.

c. They normalize the sharing of the mundane.

d. They emphasize that relating is the point.

Learning Objective: 12.4: Explain how online communication influences relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Explaining the Benefits

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. Fears about the impact of technology on communication are unique to today’s generation.

Learning Objective: 12.1: Explain how people generally perceive technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cave Drawings and Other Key Concerns

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. All technologies, regardless of their unique qualities, affect how we interact and relate with others.

Learning Objective: 12.1: Explain how people generally perceive technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Every Technology Is Relational

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. People today fear new technology, but that was not the case when the radio and the television were made available.

Learning Objective: 12.1: Explain how people generally perceive technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cave Drawings and Other Key Concerns

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Generational differences exist in the use of relational technologies.

Learning Objective: 12.1: Explain how people generally perceive technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cave Drawings and Other Key Concerns

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Technological determinism is the belief that technologies determine social structure, cultural values, and even how we think.

Learning Objective: 12.1: Explain how people generally perceive technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Technological Determinism

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. According to studies cited in the chapter, young people adopt smartphone technology based only on the quality of the product.

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how cell phones influence relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Technological Products and Service Providers

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Social construction of technology is the belief that people determine the development of technology and ultimately determine social structure and cultural value.

Learning Objective: 12.1: Explain how people generally perceive technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Construction of Technology

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Social shaping of technology is the belief that people, not technologies, exert influence on social structure and cultural values.

Learning Objective: 12.1: Explain how people generally perceive technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Shaping of Technology

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Smartphones position people as being constantly connected and constantly available to others, even when there is no immediate response to a text or call.

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how cell phones influence relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Constant Connection and Availability

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. The same study found that people don’t use media in isolation but often use two or more media systems simultaneously, an activity referred to as semicurrent media use.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Chapter Introduction

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. A study found that people touch (i.e., swipe, click, or tap) their phones an average of 2,617 times each day.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Chapter Introduction

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. When radio began appearing in homes in the 1920s, these fears were nearly identical to those expressed about television when it began appearing in homes during the 1950s.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Chapter Introduction

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. The shared use of technology and media also enables people to establish and enact specific relational roles, expectations, and boundaries.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Use of Technology and Media Is a Shared Relational Activity

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. Nearly 40 years ago, it was discovered that listening to radio was the most frequent activity shared by spouses.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Use of Technology and Media Is a Shared Relational Activity

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. Recently, researchers found that cell phones and watching television and movies to be among the most common media shared by families.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Use of Technology and Media Is a Shared Relational Activity

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. Technology and media also allow people to withdraw from social interaction.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Use of Technology and Media Is a Shared Relational Activity

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. People sometimes even pretend to use their cell phones to avoid interactions.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Use of Technology and Media Is a Shared Relational Activity

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. Technology and media enable interactions to take place.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Use of Technology and Media Is a Shared Relational Activity

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. The media equation maintains that interactions with technology are the same as interactions with other people, and people use the same social rules and expectations when interacting with both.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Companionship and Relational Satisfaction From the Actual Use of Technology and Media

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. Media illiteracy is the ability to access, interpret, and evaluate media products.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Talk About Technology and Media Promotes the Development of Media Literacy

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. Direct influences include children’s modeling of viewing behaviors exhibited by their parents.

Learning Objective:: 12.2 Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Talk About Technology and Media Promotes the Development of Media Literacy

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. Indirect influences include rule making and actively controlling children’s interpretations of television content through communication about observations on television.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Talk About Technology and Media Promotes the Development of Media Literacy

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. Some groups view the smartphone less as a device to contact others and more as a means of displaying social status and membership.

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how cell phones influence relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Relating Through Smartphones

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. Violating social standards associated with the use of technology often leads to negative responses and evaluations by others.

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how cell phones influence relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Relating Through Smartphones

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. The appropriate use of technology is often determined by location and occasion, but it is specifically determined by social groups.

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how cell phones influence relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Relating Through Smartphones

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. Overcoordination refers to the unique management of social interaction made possible through cell phones.

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how cell phones influence relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Coordination

Difficulty Level: Medium

27. Studying the impact of the Internet on social networks, researchers distinguished two types of connections in social networks: core ties and significant ties.

Learning Objective: 12.4: Explain how online communication influences relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Maintaining Relationships and Social Networks

Difficulty Level: Medium

Short Answer

1. Name one of the two terms used for giving or denying someone access to your smartphone number.

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how cell phones influence relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Boundaries and Closeness

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. Who do the researchers identify as the largest category of Facebook friends?

Learning Objective: 12.4: Explain how online communication influences relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Maintaining Relationships and Social Networks

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. What reason do the authors give for saying it does not matter how much you try to restrict access to your profile or how many privacy measures you enact on networking sites?

Learning Objective: 12.4: Explain how online communication influences relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Public Disclosure

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Media preferences have been found to be an even-more important aspect of identity for social networking site users than “classic” identity markers. Name at least two “classic” markers.

Learning Objective: 12.4: Explain how online communication influences relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Media Preferences

Difficulty Level: Hard

5. One of the greatest relational consequences of the smartphone encompasses its use in coordinating physical encounters with others. In fact, smartphones enable people to synchronize their activities to the point of ______.

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how cell phones influence relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Coordination

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Appearance is one way in which friends impact the identity construction of users. Essentially, people with good-looking friends are more likely to be perceived as ______.

Learning Objective: 12.4: Explain how online communication influences relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Friends

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Although online communication can lead to the creation of new relationships, it tends to be used more for the maintenance or continuation of ______.

Learning Objective: 12.4: Explain how online communication influences relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Maintaining Relationships and Social Networks

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. The list of connections on a person’s social networking site profile is an important tool in the construction of ______.

Learning Objective: 12.4: Explain how online communication influences relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Friends

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. There are numerous locations and occasions in which the use of relational technology may be deemed socially unacceptable. Name the one place in particular that the authors cite.

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how cell phones influence relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Performance of Relational Technology

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. The same study found that people don’t use media in isolation but often use two or more media systems simultaneously, an activity referred to as ______.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Chapter Introduction

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. ______ is the belief that technologies determine social structure, cultural values, and even how we think.

Learning Objective: 12.1: Explain how people generally perceive technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Technological Determinism

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. ______ is the belief that people determine the development of technology and ultimately determine social structure and cultural value.

Learning Objective: 12.1: Explain how people generally perceive technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Construction of Technology

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. ______ is the belief that both people and technologies exert influence on social structure and cultural values. Many factors determine the development, popularity, or adoption of technologies, including characteristics of the technology itself.

Learning Objective: 12.1: Explain how people generally perceive technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Shaping of Technology

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. The ______ maintains that interactions with technology are the same as interactions with other people, and people use the same social rules and expectations when interacting with both.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Companionship and Relational Satisfaction From the Actual Use of Technology and Media

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. ______ is the ability to access, interpret, and evaluate media products.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Talk About Technology and Media Promotes the Development of Media Literacy

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. ______ include children’s modeling of viewing behaviors exhibited by their parents.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Talk About Technology and Media Promotes the Development of Media Literacy

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. ______ include rule making and actively controlling children’s interpretations of television content through communication about observations on television.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Talk About Technology and Media Promotes the Development of Media Literacy

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. ______ are those people with whom you have a very close relationship and are in frequent contact; a person often discusses important matters in life with these people and often seeks their assistance in times of need.

Learning Objective: 12.4: Explain how online communication influences relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Maintaining Relationships and Social Networks

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. ______ are those people who are more than mere acquaintances but with whom a strong connection does not exist; a person is not overly likely to talk with these people or seek help from these people, but they are still there when needed.

Learning Objective: 12.4: Explain how online communication influences relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Maintaining Relationships and Social Networks

Difficulty Level: Medium

Essay

1. Explain why people from different generations assign different meanings to relational technologies, as well as use them in a different way.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Relational Technology and Generations

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Explain what is meant by the socialization impact of media.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Media Representations Inform About How to Behave in Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Explain the concept of parasocial relationships.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Companionship and Relational Satisfaction From Parasocial Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Explain what is meant when it is said that talk about technology and media affects their dissemination and influence.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Talk About Technology and Media Impacts Their Dissemination and Influence

Difficulty Level: Hard

5. Explain Reeves and Nass’s concept of the “media equation.”

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Companionship and Relational Satisfaction From the Actual Use of Technology and Media

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Describe the difference between core ties and significant ties in connection with online communication.

Learning Objective: 12.4: Explain how online communication influences relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Maintaining Relationships and Social Networks

Difficulty Level: Hard

7. Explain how the traditional notion of separating generations according to time is now being replaced by separating generations according to technology and media experience.

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how cell phones influence relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Relational Technologies and Generations

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Name two reasons why a person would “untag” his or her photographs posted online.

Learning Objective: 12.4: Explain how online communication influences relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Photographs

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Explain technological determinism.

Learning Objective: 12.1: Explain how people generally perceive technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Technological Determinism

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. Explain social construction of technology.

Learning Objective: 12.1: Explain how people generally perceive technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Construction of Technology

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Explain social shaping of technology.

Learning Objective: 12.1: Explain how people generally perceive technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Shaping of Technology

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. One relational need for the shared use of technology and media is promoting interaction. Explain this relational need and provide an example.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Use of Technology and Media Is a Shared Relational Activity

Difficulty Level: Hard

13. One relational need for the shared use of technology and media is withdrawing from interactions. Explain this relational need and provide an example.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Use of Technology and Media Is a Shared Relational Activity

Difficulty Level: Hard

14. One relational need for the shared use of technology and media is differentiating interactions. Explain this relational need and provide an example.

Learning Objective: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Use of Technology and Media Is a Shared Relational Activity

Difficulty Level: Hard

15. One relational need for the shared use of technology and media is enacting and evaluating roles. Explain this relational need and provide an example.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Use of Technology and Media Is a Shared Relational Activity

Difficulty Level: Hard

16. Explain the concept of media literacy.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Talk About Technology and Media Promotes the Development of Media Literacy

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. Explain other sources of the promotion of media literacy other than family members.

Learning Objective: 12.2: Describe the relational uses of technology and media.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Talk About Technology and Media Promotes the Development of Media Literacy

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. Explain boundaries and degrees of closeness in relation to cell phones.

Learning Objective: 12.3: Describe how cell phones influence relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Shared Experience

Difficulty Level: Medium