Pop Culture in the Media Exam 2

According to Professor Anton in his video the Phenomenology of the Sense, touch has no ________.

a) Reverberation

b) Possibilities

c) Actualities

d) Phenomenology

e) Retinality

According to Professor Anton in his video the Phenomenology of the Sense, touch has no ________.

a) Reverberation

b) Possibilities

c) Actualities

d) Phenomenology

e) Retinality

b) possibilities

According to Professor Anton in his video the Phenomenology of the Sense, vision gives a sense of _____ in a way that what _____ doesn’t?

a) Randomness, Taste

b) Randomness, Sound

c) Permanence, Sound

d) Permanence, Touch

e) Geometric Ration, Sound

c) Permanence, Sound

According to Professor Anton in his video the Phenomenology of the Senses, sound opens us to the world of _______, activity and action.

a) Routineness

b) Anticipation

c) Eventfulness

d) Reality

e) The animal kingdom

c) eventfulness

According to Professor Anton in his video the Phenomenology of the Senses, sound separates from what?

a) The spaio-temporal dimension

b) The receiver

c) Feedback

d) Its source

e) Its liminality

d) Its source

According to Professor Anton in his video the Phenomenology of the Sense, sound _____ and engulfs us in a way that sight does not.

a) Refrains

b) Overwhelms

c) Focuses

d) Centers

e) Surrounds

e) Surrounds

Koestler suggest: Thus _____ and ______ are opposite ends of a scale which applies to every type of hierarchy; and in every case we shall find that ______ increases, _____ decreases, as we move upward to higher levels

a) Flexibility, Rigidity

b) The Analogue, the digital

c) Willing, wishing

d) Antagonism, friendship

e) Interest, wealth

a) Flexibility, Rigidity

What is Professor Koestler describing in this question: “The challenge of the environment can exceed a critical limit where it can no longer be met by skilled routine, however flexible - because the customary ‘rule of the games’ are no longer adequate to cope with the situation”

a) Learned helplessness

b) Sublimation

c) Crisis

d) HOmeostasis

e) Vector

c) crisis

All skills, wheather derived from instinct or learning, tend with increasing practice to become _______. Monotonous environments facilitate enslavement to habit; while unexpected contingencies reverse the trend, and may result in ingenious improvisations. Critical challenges may lead to a break-down of behavior or to the creation of new forms of behavior.

a) Successful strategies

b) Expertise

c) Fragmented learning

d) Mechanized routines

e) Personality Traits

d) Mechanized routines

According to Professor Koestler, the principle cause of stagnation and extinction is______.

a) Over-specialization

b) Boredom

c) Reversal

d) Degeneration

e) Overpopulation

a) Over- Specialization

What is the first stage of skills development in which the student learns the basic rules for determining action?

a) Novice

b) Analogic

c) Piageian

d) Jungian

c) apprentice

a) Novice

The second level of skills acquisition is _______. ______ comes only after considerable experience actually coping with real situations in which the student notes or an instructor points out recurrent meaningful component patterns.

a) Proficiency

b) Sequencing

c) Competence

d) Adept

e) Involved

c) Competence

The third level of skills acquisition is ______. Increased practice exposes the performer to a wide variety of typical whole situations. Each whole situation, for the first time, has a meaning which is its relevance to the achievement of a longer-term goal.

a) Proficiency

b) Sequencing

c) Competence

d) Expert

e) Involved

a) proficiency

The ______ performer in a particular task environment has reached the final stage in the step-wise improvement of mental processing which we have been following. Up to this stage, the performer needed some sort of analytical principle (rule, guideline, maxim) to connect his grasp of the general situation to a specific action. Now his repertoire of experienced situations is so cast that normally each specific situation immediately dictates an intuitively appropriate action. This intuition is possible because each type of situation… now has associates with it a specific response

a) Proficient

b) Functional

c) Competent

d) Expert

e) Master

d) expert

The final level of skills acquisition is the ______. This ______ performance only takes place when the expert, who no longer needs principles, can cease to pay conscious attention to his performance and can let all the mental energy previously used in monitoring his performance go into producing almost instantaneously the appropriate perspective and its associated action

a) Proficient

b) Functional

c) Competent

d) Expert

e) Master

e) Master

From Hannah Arendt’s work The Human Condition, How does Hannah Arendt refer to “The happiness achieved in isolation for the world and enjoyed within the confines of one’s own private existence”?

a) Loneliness

b) Democratic Freedom

c) An absence of pain

d) A prelude to dark times

e) A noetic shift

c) an absence of paint

From Hannah Ardent’s work The Human Condition: As a doctrine, what does hedonism consider to be real?

a) Money

b) relationships

c) abstract, theoretical knowledge

d) Sensations

e) Labor

d) sensations

From the work The Human Condition: In footnote 61, what does Arendt say about mild drug addictions?

a) The mild drug addictions are harmless, society should concentrate on harder drugs with stronger addictions

b) Hedonism and mild drug addictions are natural

c) The mild drug addictions may stem from the euphoric feeling of an absence of pain

d) In a libertarian society, people are free to choose one’s own drug of preference

e) For Arendt, the unconscious id helps explains the mid drug addictions

c) the mid drug addictions may stem from the euphoric feeling of an absence of pain

It is a characteristic of all theories that argue against the world-giving capacity of the senses that they remove _____ from its position as the highest and most noble of the senses

a) Touch

b) Vision

c) Hearing

d) Taste

e) Smell

b) vision

What senses does Arendt refer to as the most the most private (those in which the body primarily sense itself while perceiving an object)?

a) Vision and hearing

b) Touch and vision

c) Hearing and taste

d) Touch and taste

e) Smell and Vision

d) Touch and taste

How does professor Ortega y Gasset define technology?

a) Man’s reaction upon his medium

b) Social improvement

c) Social decline

d) Technology for Ortega y Gasset involves a revolt of the masses

e) He states that technology is utopian

a) Man’s reaction upon his medium

What does Professor Ortega y Gasset assert regarding the sweathouse as a technology?

a) It was for originally warmth

b) It was a defense of masculinity and the female was forbidden to enter

c) It was a ritual of passage from youth to manhood

d) It was a means of hallucinogenic visions

e) It was a tertiary technology

d) It was a means of hallucinogenic vision

What does Professor Ortega y Gasset state about human necessity?

a) It originates from the id or unconscious

b) Human necessity transforms the is and the ought, and merges the two together

c) It is difficult if not impossible to separate the necessary and the superfluous

d) Human necessity is the daughter of barbarism and the grand-daughter and savagery

e) Invention is the mother of necessity

c) It is difficult if not impossible to separate the necessary and the superfluous

In what decade was the single 45 rpm record released, marking the beginning of popular (rock) music?

a) 1930s

b) 1940s

c) 1950s

d) 1960

e) 1970s

b) 1940s

In what decade did Elvis Presley begin recording?

a) 1930s

b) 1940s

c) 1950s

d) 1960s

e) 1970s

c) 1950s

In what decade was Motown records established?

a) 1930s

b) 1940s

c) 1950s

d) 1960s

e) 1970s

d) 1960s

Who is the most famous artist from the Motown record label?

a) Bruce Springsteen

b) Elvis Presley

c) Huey Lewis

d) Michael Jackson

e) Buddy Holly

d) Michael Jackson

Who is not a founding member of the rap group N.W.A.?

a) Ice cube

b) Dr. Dre

c) Easy E

d) Ice Tea

e) all the above are founding members of the rap group N.W.A?

d) Ice Tea

For whom did Elton John write the song Philadelphia Freedom?

a) Tiger Woods

b) Billie Jean King

c) Michael Jordan

d) The philadelphia 76ers

e) The philadelphia phillies

b) Billie Jean King

What album is not in the top 10 best selling of all time?

a) Thriller (Michael Jackson)

b) Back in Black (AC/DC)

c) Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)

d) Bat out of Hell (Meat Loaf)

e) Immaculate Conception (Madonna)

e) Immaculate Conception (Madonna)

What is the song Miracle by Natalie Merchant about?

a) Marijuana Use

b) Love and Death

c) Religious Belief

d) Science

e) Woman

e) Woman

Who wrote Insane in the Membrane?

a) Snoopy Soggy Dog

b) The Thunderbirds

c) The Beach Boys

d) Cypress Hill

e) N.W.A.

d) Cyprus Hill

According to Professor Mumford, above the id, Freud uncovered two other layers of the self, both later than the id, for they are products of nurture and culture, not just raw nature. One of these is the ________, the commonplace, conscious daylight creature, the official presentable self, disciplined by experience to admit the fire burns and ice freezes, no longer under the infantile illusion of boundless power.

a) identity

b) ego

c) superego

d) morality

e) transference

b) ego

What is id mean in Latin?

a) Love

b) Self

c) It

d) Infant

e) Devil

c) It

Professor Mumford discusses the _____; the voice of duty and conscious, which seeks to bring unity into man’s often conflicting claims and activities, and to direct them to a purpose beyond his immediate needs and satisfactions

a) identity

b) ego

c) superego

d) morality

e) transference

c) superego

According to Professor Mumford’s discussion of Freud, what has happened with respect to the revolt against the superego?

a) With the influence of the money, the superego has become stronger

b) With the overthrow of faith in government, the ego has been severely battered

c) With the blessing of the Church, the ego has been overthrown by the superego

d) with the blessing of science, the id has revolting against the superego

e) With the aid of war, the ego has detached from the id

d) With the blessing of science, the id has revolted against the superego

According to Professor Mumford, what did Freud over-emphasize with respect to the id-ego-superego?

a) The strength of the mother

b) The role of sexuality in child development

c) The role of society in child development

d) The role of the paternal in child development

e) The role of the material in child development

d) The role of the paternal in child development

By renouncing those emergent qualities that, being attached to the superego, are specifically human, man becomes what?

a) Scientific

b) Rational

c) Emotional

d) Monstrous

e) Overly feminine

d) Monstrous

According to Professor Ortega, what happens to the animal when it cannot satisfy its vital needs?

a) It dies

b) it evolves

c) It adapts

d) Nature protects what is necessary

e) b & c are correct

a) Its dies

“A reform of nature” and “the adaptation of the medium to the individual” are quotes which convey Professor Ortega’s definition of what?

a) Language

b) Love

c) Friendship

d) Technology

e) The gravitas of the mass

d) Technology

According to Professor Ortega in his discussion of technology, To reach upon his _____, not to resign himself to the world as it is - that is the token of man.

a) Environment

b) Logos

c) Token

d) Fealty

e) Wisdom

a) Environment

According to Professor Postman in The Disappearance of Childhood, what is the mechanisms by which barbarism is held at bay?

a) Law

b) Shame

c) Symbols of authority

d) Democracy

e) The Press

b) Shame

According to Professor Postman in The Disappearance of Childhood, with the gradual decline of shame there is, of course, a corresponding diminution in the significance of ______. As shame is the psychological mechanism that overcomes impulse, ____ are the exterior social expression of the same conquest.

a) Friendships

b) Relationships

c) Manners

d) Money exchanges

e) Bearing Children

c) Manners

According to Professor Postman in The Disappearance of Childhood, “Children, in other words, are immersed in a world of______, surrounding by mystery and awe”.

a) Problematic media

b) Shameful episodes

c) Secrets

d) Ego-involved criticism

e) Religious introspection

c) Secrets

According to Professor Constance Penley in her ReasonTV discussion of pronography, which every technological advance we have seen a greater ____ of sexual expression. This is from the printing press to medieval manuscripts, photography, film, video and the internet.

a) Decay

b) Originality

c) Definition

d) Democratization

e) Demonization

d) Democratization

According to Professor Constance Penley in her ReasonTv Discussions of pronography, if something is considered ‘obscene’ it has no _____ protection and can be banned.

a) Civil

b) Religious

c) Artistic

d) Moral

e) First Amendment

e) First Amendment

What is not a standard of the Miller Test?

a) Literary Value

b) Artistic Value

c) Political Value

d) Scientific Value

e) Monetary Value

e) Monetary Value

Which is Erich Fromm’s argument regarding idolatry and machines?

a) Machines can be expedient

b) Modern society cannot function without its technology

c) Fromm compares machines to the burning bush of MOses and the idols of the Egyptians

d) We worship machines and in doing so lose our human power

e) Erich Fromm predicted artificial intelligence

d) We worship machines and in doing so lose our human power

According to Erich Fromm, what is the idol?

a) The analogic framing of phenomenology

b) A phantom and a fiction

c) THe alienated form of self-experience

d) The inevitable result of the technological domination and the machine

e) What Plato feared the most

c) The alienated form of self-experience

Regarding the memetic lexicon: “A person whose entire life has become subordinated to the propagation of a meme, robotically and at any opportunity” can be labeled what?

a) A sociotype

b) Memetrically Allergic

c) A membot

d) Auto-toxic

e) Memetically Inoculated

c) A membot

Regarding the memetic lexicon: The full diversity of memes accessible to a culture or individual. Learning languages and traveling are methods of expanding one’s _____

a) Memetic Drift

b) Meme pool

c) Ecology of Media

d) Censorship

e) Memetic Innoculation

b) Meme Pool

Regarding the memetic lexicon: A medium, method, or vehicle for the transmission of memes. Almost any communication medium can be memetic _____.

a) Magnet

b) Technology

c) Conduit

d) Means

e) Vector

e) Vector

Regarding the memetic lexicon: Slavery is an excellent example of a(n) _______ meme.

a) Auto-toxic

b) Eco-toxic

c)Strategy

d) Distinction

e) Association

b) Exo-toxic

Any attempt to hinder the spread of a meme. Hence, ______ is analogous to attempts to halt disease by spraying insecticides, _____ can never fully kill off an offensive meme, and may actually help to promote the meme’s most virulent strain, while killing off milder forms.

a) Inoculation

b) Accounting behavior

c) Muted group theory

d) Communication apprehension

e) Censorship

e) Censorship

“The fading of the magic glow of desire” denotes what for Erich Hoffer in Before the Sabbath?

a) The Twilight of American Culture

b) The increase of hatred preceding a civil war

c) The misanthropy of the old

d) The basic feeling that resonates from a communist regimes

e) The end result of capitalism

c) The misanthropy of the old

When is the mid awkward and misleading, according to Erich Hoffer in Before the Sabbath?

a) When attempting to master the natural environment

b) When attempting to predict long term consequence of near events

c) When we seek self-advantage

d) In comprehending and mastering man

e) In the fit of a mass movement, reason can be expected to take a subordinate status to passion

d) in comprehending and mastering man

According to Erich Hoffer in Before the Sabbath, the best education will not immunize a person against what?

a) Corruption of power

b) Fear of the unknown

c) The temptation towards enslavement

d) Technopoly

e) The black sabbath

a) Corruption of power

According to Erich Hoffer in Before the Sabbath, to give freedom and equality to people who cannot help themselves is to rob them of what?

a) Price

b) Conformity

c) Soul soothing alibis

d) A sense of the sacred

e) The identification of ritualism

c) soul soothing albis

“When it devotes much of its wealth and energies to the care and welfare of the least-endowed segment of its population and puts a low ceiling on the rewards of those who ceaselessly strive and achieve” denotes what phenomenon for Erich Hoffer in Before the Sabbath?

a) The essence of technological communism

b) The revolution of technological capitalism

c) When a nation is in the midst of a technological socialism

d) When a nation is stumbling towards Oligarchy

e) When a nation is on its way out

e) When a nation is on its way out

What is not an ingredient for national vigor and greatness, according to Erich Hoffer in Before the Sabbath?

a) Courage

b) Pride

c) Enterprise

d) Skill

e) A passion for excellence

b) Pride

According to Erich Fromm in The Sane Society; _____ is man’s faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man’s ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. ______ is man’s instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man’s instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

a) Technology

b) Potential Use Value

c) Kinetic Use Value

d) Reason

e) Science

d) Reason

What does Erich Fromm suggest is a function of the animal part of man?

a) Happiness

b) Taste

c) Intelligence

d) Reason

e) Violence

c) Intelligence

According to Erich Fromm, _____ is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness

a) Fear

b) Boredom

c) Anxiety

d) Pronography

e) Vice

b) Boredom

According to Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism, where foes the philistine retire?

a) Public life

b) Aesthetic possibilities

c) Private life

d) Wealth

e) The area of employment

c) Private Life

In the midst of ruin the philistine is most worries about what?

a) The future

b) Authenticity

c) Aesthetics

d) Pricate security

e) The past

d) Private security

What is dangerous to totalitarianism?

a) Intellectual initiative

b) Artistic initiative

c) Spiritual initiative

d) All of the above are danger to totalitarianism

e) a & b are dangers to totalitarianism but not c

d) All of the above are danger to totalitarianism

What does totalitarianism do with first rate talent?

a) invariably replaces first rate talent

b) Invariably promotes first rate talent

c) First rate talent becomes the basis for the new movement

d) Totalitarianism has no tolerance for stupidity and incompetence and this greatly values first rate talent

e) Totalitarianism aggressively hunts first rate talent of which to make an example with threats and coercion

d) Totalitarianism has no tolerance for stupidity and incompetence and this greatly calues first rate talent

According Professor Corey Anton’s Introduction to Media Ecology, media ecology is the study of communication mediums as what?

a) Content

b) Messages

c) Ritual

d) Environments

e) Media Effects

d) Enviornments

According Professor Corey Anton’s Introduction to Media Ecology, Marshal McLuhan stated “man is an extension of _____ that remakes the _____ that makes the man”

a) His environment, speech

b) Nature, Nature

c)The tool, media

d) The communication technology, media

e) The message, the medium

b) Nature, Nature

According Professor Corey Anton’s Introduction to Media Ecology, What is not a technology that has been extendiely studied by media ecologists?

a) The alphabet

b) The printing press

c) The telegraph

d) Music

e) All of the above, according to professor anton, have been extensively studied by media exologists

d) Music

What did these three media extensively studied by media ecologists introduce into the world?

a) Algorithms

b) Large-scale social change

c) Symbolism

d) Anxiety

e) Analogic Reasoning

b) large-scale social change

According Professor Corey Anton’s Introduction to Media Ecology, What is the principle of the printing press?

a) Variability

b) Standardization

c) The solitary reader

d) Communicative speed

e) Communicative depth

b) standardization

According to Professor Anton, What kind of shift takes place when people become literate?

a) Noetic (thinking)

b) Digital (visual)

c) Analogical (nonverbal)

d) Capitalistic (acquisitive)

e) Primal (Organic)

a) Noetic (thinking)

According to Professor Anton, Literacy ushers in a new tolerance for ____ as fears of forgetfulness fade

a) Radicalism

b) Democracy

c) Dissent

d) Novelty

e) Romanticism

d) Novelty

According Professor Corey Anton’s Introduction to Media Ecology, the alphabet radically transformed how people were able to understand what?

a) Religion

b) money and exchange

c) Interpersonal relationships, especially between parents and child which resulted in the generational gap

d) Nationalism as people began to learn about their country’s histroy

e) Their own language

e) Their own language