Exam 8: Theories of Media and Human Development

Critics argue that advertising to children is inherently deceptive because young children do not have the cognitive capacity to discern what is and is not true in that advertising.

It is likely that regular viewing of advertising by children will ____.

Eight- to eighteen-year-olds spend more time with media than in any other activity besides (maybe) sleeping.

Because people tend to post the best aspects of themselves and their experiences on social networking sites, most user social comparison is typically downward.

_________ occurs when children's value as consumers trumps their value as people, threatening their physical, psychological, social, emotional, and spiritual development.

Objectification theory springs from drawn from feminist critical theory.

The idea that young people learn about sex through snippets of information they collect from a variety of sources from which they piece together memory structures that shape their attitudes, expectations, and behaviors surrounding sex is __________.

You go to Facebook expecting to pass an enjoyable few minutes before class, but what you encounter there just makes you unhappy. You have experienced ______.

Superpeer theory states that __________.

Research indicates that passive social network use leads to lower levels of subjective well-being and active use boosts levels.

_______ is the idea that people, in order to satisfy their need to evaluate their own opinions and abilities and to reduce uncertainties they may have about themselves, make comparative judgments of various aspects of the lives and experiences of those around themselves.

The concept of the "early window" suggests that children encounter the world through television before they are developmentally capable of competently interacting with it.

Relatively few youthful smartphone users say that they spend too much time on their devices.

Preschool children who have a television in the bedroom and are exposed to higher levels of background television tend to more quickly develop Theory of Mind.

Research indicates that regularly viewing of television portrayals of highly attractive persons can lead to ____.

There is evidence that the simole lack of easy access to a smartphone can create a negative feeling in users that can be relieved only through reconnection with their beloved device, a phenomenon researchers call____.

Children achieve ______ when they understand that mental states are representational, can be private, and can change and differ across individuals.

Shirley Steinberg contends that the writers of children's and adolescent's "cultural curriculum" are not educational agencies but rather commercial concerns that operate not for the social good but for individual gain, leading to __________, the corporate construction of childhood.

Self-complexity is the ability to see oneself as having different self-concepts across different situations.

Subjective well-being involves both how people feel about themselves in the moment and how satisfied they are, in general, with their own lives.