Persons in cultures with little formal education tend to remember information based on its ______.
a. uniqueness
b. novelty
c. organization of unrelated items
d. functionality
d. functionality
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Which of the following is a disadvantage to videoconferencing?
A) It enables people in different locations to interact at one given time. B) It only allows people at different locations to hear one another. C) It prevents the interpretation of nonverbal behaviors. D) It is more vulnerable to extremely frustrating equipment failures. E) It is rarely useful for business meetings.
According to the text, what was McLuhan’s general attitude toward the possibility of
“television addiction”?
a. He would have been sympathetic to this idea; he believed TV was very involving and could have addictive power. © 2016 Cengage Learning®. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly accessible website, in whole or in part. b. He would have been sympathetic to this idea; he personally claimed to be physically addicted to TV. c. He would NOT have been sympathetic to this idea; he believed that TV was a cool medium and did not have the capacity to foster addiction. d. He would NOT have been sympathetic to this idea; he pointed out that TV saturated people and eventually they stopped watching it. e. He would have been sympathetic to this idea, but only if TV was combined with a regular dose of heroin during the peak point of arousal during a TV show.
Stanton Farms, a California-based company, grows strawberries and blackberries year round and delivers them to grocery stores across the country. A blizzard on the East Coast delays shipments to stores in New York and Massachusetts leading to a berry shortage. Which term describes this situation?
a. controversy b. disaster c. crisis d. problem
Let us return to Margaret, from Question 45 above. Margaret blamed her terrible day on losing her lucky shirt. Although we are sorry that Margaret had such a bad day, she did use a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.