The cultural values of teenagers are influenced by various forms of media, but they are first influenced by parents and peers, true or false?

Steele (1999) conducted ‘The Room Culture’ study on U.S. high school and college students to determine what their living spaces revealed about the importance of social media. One likely finding of this study is that young people’s living spaces reveal that social media has:

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1. more importance in young people’s living spaces than elsewhere
2. different levels of importance for high school students and college students
3. high importance to U.S. for both high school and college students
4. different levels of importance for different individuals, rather than for different

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The cultural values of teenagers are influenced by various forms of media, but they are first influenced by parents and peers.

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What is the significance of the fact that people create their own reality based on personal experiences and knowledge gained from social interactions?

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1. Everyone’s reality is different.
2. Everyone’s reality is the same.
3. People create their own reality in order to move forward in life.
4. People create their own reality in order to forget bad experiences in the past.

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What makes social media potentially costly on both an emotional and financial level is the risk of :

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1. overspending due to exposure to media marketing
2. Internet scams in email, chat, or instant messaging
3. spending large amounts of time on social media sites
4. losing money on addictive online gambling sites

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Where is there music in social media?

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1. Pretty much nowhere
2. Just about everywhere
3. Only on music websites
4. Only on gaming websites

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If Eleanor comes to see her city as being a dangerous place simply because a particular television crime show supposedly takes place there, and because everyone she knows who watches the show tells her they are becoming increasingly afraid, we can say that Eleanor:

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1. should stop watching the show and instead watch shows that don’t frighten her
2. is accurately perceiving her city and should be especially cautious there
3. is paying too much attention to what her friends say
4. has created her own reality using social constructionism

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What do you think is the purpose of music in social media?

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1. To entertain you
2. To tell you how you should feel
3. To keep you coming back to the site
4. To put you in the mood to buy something

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Nonprofit websites, like for-profit websites, can provide __________ information to impact and promote personal well-being.

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1. positive
2. unusual
3. unnecessary
4. irrelevant

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Research shows that certain types of background music can impact customers’ perceptions of the speed of their wait time. Accordingly, stores and service organizations in which people may have significant waiting periods would do well to:

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1. do an analysis to determine what type of background music promotes the greatest amount of customer satisfaction
2. liminate all background music so that no customers will hear music they don’t care for
3. relate their background music to the type of store or service they run
4. vary the types of background music they play in order to please the greatest number of people possible

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Type and quality of music are a significant part of the influence of music on one’s mood.

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True

False

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Steele (1999) conducted ‘The Room Culture’ study on U.S. high school and college students to determine what their living spaces revealed about the importance of social media. The study probably found that young people demonstrate the importance of social media in their lives by __________ their private living space.

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1. displaying meaningful artifacts in
2. inviting only similar-minded peers into
3. insisting on using their computers only in
4. remaining electronically connected 24 hours a day in

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The Internet was introduced to the public in the 1990s, at which time people had great hope that cyberspace would be a utopian society in which people could do and become what they wanted. What fact most likely destroyed that hope?

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1. The fact that some social media relationships lead married people to divorce
2. The fact that some people appear to become addicted to the Internet and neglect their responsibilities
3. The fact that so many people still have no access to the Internet
4. The fact that criminal activities and victimization of innocent people can also take place on the Internet

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Which of the following is likely NOT a reason that cyber crime is described as “emotionally costly”?

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1. People usually feel like idiots for allowing themselves to be victimized.
2. People are likely to become afraid of using the social media for any purpose whatsoever.
3. People may fall in love with someone online who has ulterior motives.
4. People experience anger and anxiety after being cheated by someone they thought they could trust.

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The only reason that social media exists is because consumers demand it.

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True

False

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What is one reason that the influence of social media is now more pervasive and conscious?

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1. People are more interested in connecting with each other than they were before.
2. Modern technology has increased the ways that people can stay electronically connected.
3. Users interact with social media no matter when they go online.
4. Social media has begun to replace face-to-face interaction.

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The way people perceive reality determines:

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1. how they will behave and interact in social media
2. what their reality actually is
3. what social media sites are likely to appeal to them
4. how they are perceived by others

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What would likely happen to people’s constructed social reality if social media were to suddenly disappear?

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1. People would re-create social media so that they would know what their social reality is.
2. People would behave completely differently without social media as a role model.
3. People wouldn’t notice. Their constructed social reality would remain the same.
4. People would have to rely on other role models and personal interaction to construct their reality.

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Bailey, Nicole, and Charles (2006) demonstrated that preference for a particular type of background music caused customers who heard it to perceive of the speed of their waiting time as being faster. Thus, the researchers determined hearing their preferred type of background music had __________ psychological impact on customers’ satisfaction:

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1. a negative
2. a positive
3. varying
4. no

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Yolanda meets someone on Facebook and believes he is who he says he is—an attractive man her age. When she meets him in person, however, she finds he is many years her junior and interested only in getting money from her. What was Yolanda’s biggest mistake?

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1. Failing to consider the fact that this man might not be who he said he was
2. Being willing to meet in person someone that she didn’t know
3. Automatically believing that cyberspace is a good place to meet a potential intimate partner
4. Failing to use an online dating site

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Long-term exposure to violence can create a desensitized individual.

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True

False

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Which of the following is an example of constructing social reality?

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1. Seeking out new friends after moving to another state
2. Enjoying a movie
3. Believing you should look like a model in a fashion magazine
4. Posting to a social media website

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We human beings create our own reality, based on messages and meanings we perceive in the world around us. What role does social media commonly play in our construction of social reality?

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1. It allows us to replace face-to-face relationships with relationships on social media
2. It allows us to improve face-to-face relationships by practicing with relationships on social media
3. It allows us to believe that we have personal relationships with people we have never met
4. It allows us to compensate for the failings of face-to-face relationships by adding increasing numbers of social media relationships

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Use of social media has long-term effects on one’s __________ responses.

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1. biological and emotional
2. cognitive and emotional
3. emotional and immune-system
4. immune-system and cognitive

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What is an advantage of evaluating the impact of social media?

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1. Learning how to use social media correctly
2. Determining the long-term effects media has on one’s biological and emotional responses
3. Determining what social media sites are most beneficial for the individual
4. Learning how one might be scammed by others

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“Social constructionism” refers to the belief that people create their own reality based on their personal experiences and knowledge they acquire through social interactions.

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True

False