Exam Review Sheet

This list is drawn from all the powerpoints and is meant to help you prepare for the exam. To do well on the exam, you are strongly encouraged to study your lecture notes and to actively think about how all of these theories and concepts work together (or not). 

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