Audience Types and Theory

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A level Media Studies - A-Level Test sobre Audience Types and Theory, creado por Juliet Akindayini el 03/10/2019.
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Pregunta 1

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What term is used to describe a relatively small segment of the audience or market with specific interests and tastes?
Respuesta
  • Crossover
  • Niche
  • Mass
  • Primary

Pregunta 2

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How many types of potential readings does Hall argue audiences can have?
Respuesta
  • 4
  • 5
  • 2
  • 3

Pregunta 3

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According to Young and Rubicam 4 Cs theory, which psychographic category demonstrates the following traits and characteristics – anti-materialistic, intellectual, socially aware and seeks enlightenment?
Respuesta
  • The Explorer
  • The Aspirer
  • The Reformer
  • The Resigned

Pregunta 4

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What socio-economic group is being described ‘middle management such as teachers, creatives (graphic designers)?
Respuesta
  • C1
  • D
  • C2
  • B

Pregunta 5

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What term from Reception theory is the statement below describing? The production of the message where the sender uses verbal (e.g. words, signs, images, video) and non-verbal (e.g. body language, hand gestures, face expressions) symbols.
Respuesta
  • Encoding
  • Decoding

Pregunta 6

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Which Uses and Gratification need is being described in the definition below? Audiences can recognise a person or product, role models that reflect similar values to themselves and mimic or copy some of their characteristics.
Respuesta
  • Personal relationship/social integration
  • Personal identity
  • Information and surveillance
  • Entertainment and diversion

Pregunta 7

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According to Cultivation Theory, the media largely communicates the dominate ideology.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 8

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What is the name of classification method used to group consumers according to their age, sex, income, profession?
Respuesta
  • Psychographics
  • Four Cs
  • Vals
  • Demographics

Pregunta 9

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What theorist developed the mean world syndrome idea?
Respuesta
  • Blumer and Katz
  • Hall
  • Gerbner
  • Clay Shirky


Pregunta 10

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In terms of the demographic of an audience, which one is the odd one out?
Respuesta
  • Social Climber
  • Gender
  • Religion
  • Age

Pregunta 11

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Which theories argue that audiences are active?
Respuesta
  • Reception theory and Uses and Gratification
  • Hypodermic Needle Theory and Cultivation theory
  • Cultivation theory and Reception theory
  • Cultivation theory and Uses and Gratification

Pregunta 12

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What term is being described in the definition below? They get information from a media source and then pass the information, along with their interpretation, to the mass audience.
Respuesta
  • Personal relationship
  • Magic bullet theory
  • Mean world syndrome
  • Opinions leaders

Pregunta 13

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Which theory states media producers encode messages and that are decoded by audiences?
Respuesta
  • Two Step Flow Theory
  • Cultivation Theory
  • Uses and Gratification
  • Reception Theory

Pregunta 14

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Which of the following is not part of Young and Rubicam’s Four Cs?
Respuesta
  • Reformers
  • Innovator
  • Resigned
  • Mainstreamer

Pregunta 15

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What does the S in GEARS stand for?
Respuesta
  • Sexuality
  • Social group
  • Social-economic
  • Status

Pregunta 16

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What types of audiences are associated with the hypodermic needle theory view?
Respuesta
  • Passive
  • Active

Pregunta 17

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According to Cultivation Theory, what impact of the media on audience is?
Respuesta
  • Immediate
  • Incremental and over a long period of time
  • Minimal
  • Pervasive and immediate

Pregunta 18

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What theory asserts that media and information injects their message directly to their audiences?
Respuesta
  • The Hypodermic Needle Theory
  • The Two-Step Flow Theory
  • Uses and Gratification
  • Cultivation theory

Pregunta 19

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Uses and Gratifications Theory: Which of the below answers matches this explanation of a pleasure the audience get from the Media - "Audience uses the media as a substitute for relationships/social interaction"
Respuesta
  • Personal identity
  • Entertainment
  • Information
  • Personal relationship

Pregunta 20

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According to Hall, what type of reading is when the reader fully shares the text’s code accepts and reproduces the message encoded by the producer?
Respuesta
  • Oppositional
  • Preferred
  • Negotiated

Pregunta 21

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Which is the odd one out?
Respuesta
  • Preferred reading
  • Hegemonic reading
  • Prominent reading
  • Dominant reading

Pregunta 22

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What does the R in GEARS stand for?
Respuesta
  • Religion
  • Region
  • Race
  • Age (Range)

Pregunta 23

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According to Hall, what type of reading is when the audience partly shares the text’s code, broadly accepts the preferred reading but sometimes resist and modifies it in a way that reflects one’s own opinion, lived experiences and other opinions?
Respuesta
  • Negotiated
  • Oppositional
  • Preferred

Pregunta 24

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According to Young and Rubicam 4 Cs theory, which psychographic category are typically younger and materialistic who seek status?
Respuesta
  • Suceeders
  • Resigned
  • Strugglers
  • Aspirers

Pregunta 25

Pregunta
Which Uses and Gratification need is being described in the definition below? Audiences can recognise a person or product, role models that reflect similar values to themselves and mimic or copy some of their characteristics.
Respuesta
  • Personal relationship/social integration
  • Information and surveillance
  • Personal identity
  • Entertainment and diversion
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