Exam 8: Theories of Media and Human Development

There is no clear research evidence that exposure to thinness depicting and promoting media leads to distorted body-image perception in school-age females and college women.

The social skills model of problematic SNS use argues that ______.

The U.S. government is a global leader in protecting children from potentially harmful effects of advertising.

One potentially negative effect of our over-reliance on our smartphones is that their mere presence, even if we're not using them, reduces our available cognitive capacity, a phenomenon researchers call____.

Because self-complexity develops as young people encounter different situations, relationships, and social roles, and they do so in large part through interaction with television, increased viewing leads to increased self-complexity.

Researcher Kristen Harrison discovered declines in adolescents' self-complexity occurred at about 40 hours of TV viewing per week.

Children near 7 or 8 years old can distinguish between commercials and other content and they understand the commercials' selling intent.