Exam Review Sheet

This list is drawn from all the powerpoints and is meant to help you prepare for the exam, but to do well on the exam, you are responsible for studying with your lecture notes.

1. Lasswell's model of communication
2. Positivist ontology
3. Social constructivist ontology
4. Inoculation
5. Descriptive norms
6. Injunctive norms
7. Cialdini's 6 ways to influence people
8. Framing
9. Gain frame
10. Loss frame
11. Episodic frame
12. Thematic frame
13. Prospect theory
14. Selective exposure
15. Cognitive dissonance
16. Mood management theory
17. Confirmation bias
18. Selective perception
19. Selective retention
20. Polarization
21. Badder-Meinhof phenomenon
22. Reinforcement theory
23. Fixed mindset
24. Growth mindset 
25. Lasswell's propaganda theory
26. Lippmann's "pictures in our heads"
27. Powerful media effects
28. Magic bullet theory
29. Hypodermic needle theory
30. Experiments with "Why we fight" films
31. Limited media effects
32. "War of the worlds"
33. "The people's choice"
34. Two-step flow theory
35. Uses and gratifications paradigm
36. Moderate-to-powerful effects
37. Search Engine Manipulation Effect    
38. 1st level agenda-setting
39. Accessibility
40. 2nd level agenda-setting
41. Who sets the media's agenda?
42. Agenda-setting theory's problems
43. Agenda-cutting
44. Priming
45. Embodied cognition
46. Semantic network
47. "Buying the war"
48. Framing & President Bush's address
49. Failure of the press during 9/11
50. Third-person perception & its implications
51. Self-enhancement bias
52. First-person perception & its implications
53. Spiral of silence
54. Spiral of silence and social media
55. Your proposals to minimize the spiral
56. Brene Brown's "Power of vulnerability"
57. Speed and contemporary life
58. New technology and quality of life
59. Jon Jandai's "Life is easy"
60. Connections & addiction
61. Upward comparison
62. Downward comparison
63. Sherry Turkle's "Connected, but alone"
64. Goldilocks effect
65. Smiling depression
66. PostSecret
67. Humans of New York
68. Privacy and contemporary life
69. Glenn greenwald's "Why privacy matters"
70. Reidentification
71. Data pollution
72. Target's big data analysis
73. G-male, Siri, and singularity
74. Limits of codes & programming
75. Michael Sandel's trolley problems
76. Jason Warner and "Alice"
77. Link between e-waste and cybercrime