Which part of the genre cycle is represented by movies that make fun of the tired conventions of that genre?
Originator
Classical
Revisionist
Conformist
Parody
Which part of the genre cycle is where the classic genre formula is given new life with the introduction of novel ideas?
What happens in the second act of a Hollywood movie?
Intensifying conflict between the protagonist and antagonist
The major fight scene between protagonist and antagonist
The main conflict of the movie is introduced
Reasonable affirmations between protagonist and antagonist decide conflict resolution
What needs to happen within the first 5 minutes of a Hollywood movie?
Introduce characters
Introduce conflict
Establish movie location
Provide background information for the story
What type of shot makes the character appear powerful?
Low angle
High angle
Close shot
Medium shot
Extreme close shot
Which of the following is not one of the roles of narrative historically in human society?
Teach social order
Transmit cultural history
Teach how to behave in society
Entertain the masses
What is the opposition of needs, values, and/or interests?
Conflict
Story
Plot
Convention
Characters
The movie Momento runs backwards. Because of this, we would say that Momento has an unusual _______?
Where is the thought/message of the story found?
The conflict
In the Cliff Notes
In the story exposition
How the protagonist overcomes his fatal flaw and the antagonist
The movie The New Guy is about Dizzy, a small town loser who manages to change his fortunes in high school by spending time with prison inmates. In The New Guy, Dizzy is the:
Hero
Villain
Protagonist
Antagonist
Which of the following genres has the highest average box office gross?
Action
Horror
Animation
Comedy
Science Fiction
Hollywood filmmakers like to produce movies in which the thought of the movie is:
Complex and insightful
Modeled on classic literary ideas
Uncontroversial
Questioning of the status quo
Which of the following genres appeals to the smallest audience?
Which of the following is an example of leisure in the life of an average college student?
Going out for coffee with friends
Writing a term paper
Meeting with a study group
Shopping for food
Motivation is the process by which people learn, over time, how to use media to:
Activate neural processing
Seeking information processing
Trigger release of neurotransmitters
Provide cognitive triggers toward behavior
Many parents abruptly stop their child's fun video game play to make them do some less fun activity like homework or chores. As a result, homework or chores are made a punishment. What type of motivational system does this illustrate?
Avoidance
Consummatory
Appetitive
Penalty/Loss
Bart told Homer that the new Trick-Trick record is pretty lame, so Homer buys a J Dilla bootleg instead. Which type of motivation explains why Homer didn't buy the Trick-Trick record?
Basic-Biological
Basic-Social
Learned-Stimulus-response
Learned-Social learning
After accidentally watching the Walking Dead, Marge became a regular viewer. She says she likes the show because the interactions among the characters give her a warm and fuzzy feeling. What type of motivation system has Marge addicted to the Walking Dead?
JimBob is quite excited about his big plans to watch the movie Heidi this Sunday evening. Which type of motivation system is being activated?
Perception consists of all the following characteristics, except:
Requires conscious recognition
Is a muli-stage process
Influenced by long term memory
Task focused
Occurs outside of consciousness
In class, I gave the example of how identifying a set of four apples led some people to perceive a pear as an apple. This is an example of:
Perceptual priming
Perceptual automaticity
Alternating attention on perception
Perceptual redress
Which of the following is not true of perception?
Perception is emergent
Working memory matches sensory cue frequencies to patterns in long term memory
Perception consists of matching an external targeted stimulus to a set of neurons reserved for that stimulus
It takes place on working memory
When making sense of an image of television, you use all the following visual detection cues except:
Luminescence
Brilliance
Occlusion
Relative size
While you are searching your memory for the answer to this question, what type of attention are you activating?
Alerting
Concentrating
Orienting
Executive
Focusing
Alerting attention is sensitive to all of the following except:
Movement
Voices
Edits
Which type of attention are you using to read this question?
Despite your focus on answering these questions, you are still able to notice your roommate sneaking up behind you to steal your beer. What type of attention allowed you to save your beer?
Which of the following was found about babies watching television?
They didn't know where to look
THey maintained focus without looking away
Television didn't draw their attention
After 15 seconds, they lost interest
What protocol is used to measure intensity of attention to a television program?
EEG
Eyes on screen
Secondary Task reaction time
fMRI
Focus intensity scale
Which terms best describe the structure of the long term memory system?
Ideas and emotions
Nodes and links
Chutes and ladders
Deposits and storage
Which memory system is responsible for filtering out extraneous information?
Sensory
Working
Long term
Storage
Which of the following is true of long term memory?
You store everything you see
There is a set of neurons assigned to each memory
If you do not access a memory within 3 years, it is erased
You only store information that you think is important
The idea that the longer attention is maintained, the less likely it is to be broken is known as:
Attentional inertia
Attentional stability
Attentional intensity
Attentional solidity
What are the two cognitive motivational systems in the limited capacity model?
Preventing and circumventing
Reward and punishment
Approach and avoidance
Restraint and indulgence
According to the Limited Capacity Model, which type of message is remembered better?
Automatic
Positive
Approach
Crucial
A joke consists of all the following, except:
A set up
A butt
A tag line
A reversal
Which memory process is limited to 7 +/- 2 items?
You are watching Snakes on A Plane and you see a snake on the plane. Which of these is the most likely response?
Automatic emotional response to stimuli
Controlled emotional response to stimuli
Automatic emotional response to the message
No response because you don't like Samuel L. Jackson
After searching the entire city of New York, the protagonist finally locates the girl of his dreams waiting at the door of his own apartment. What type of emotional response is the happiness you feel in you heart for his success?
Automatic emotional response to the stimuli
Controlled emotional response to the stimuli
No response because you don't like happiness
In semiotics, a sign is made up of:
A signifier and a signified
Meaning elements
Structural and contextual meanings
Semiological cues
In a movie, a superimposition implies two things that are connected in time or meaning. “Superimposition” combined with “connection in time or meaning” is the:
Signifier
Signified
Sign
Sinorama
Which memory system is where you do your thinking?
In his television show, Jerry Seinfeld points out the common absurdities of everyday life. This type of humor is called ________?
Slapstick
Puns
Autobiographical humor
Observational humor
According to affective disposition theory, who would be the most funny professor to get hit in the face with a creme pie?
Sherry, who you all love
Tamborini, who's okay
Morrison, who you generally dislike
McCornack, who you all hate
According to affective disposition theory, which of the following will result in favorable evaluation of a movie?
The liked character loses out in the end
The liked character fails to overcome his fatal flaw
The disliked character is punished in the end
The disliked character changes dispositions
Emotional response consists of:
Arousal
Arousal + Valence
Valence + Bias
Disposition bias + arousal
According to affective disposition theory, the reason why some people like the Three Stooges and other people don't is:
Some people are boys and others are girls
People have different values
Some people don't understand that no one really gets hurt
Some people find the Three Stooges ugly
Which of the following is not one of the moral foundations?
Harm/care
Purity/Sanctity
Loyalty/In group
Justice/Integrity
Respect/Authority
Where would you find an exemplar?
Working memory
Sensory memory
Long term memory
Attentional memory
"When forming a judgment, people retrieve the smallest subset of available information needed to form the judgment" is known as:
Sensory retrieval
Sufficiency principle
Information skimming
Retrieval equivalency
All of the following makes information easier to retrieve, except:
Obtainability
Exemplars
Vividness
Recency
Frequency
All of the following are characters of media that contribute to exemplar formation except:
Concrete images
Consequential events
Rapid sequences of events
Emotionally laden events