Advanced Health

The Least You Need to Know Issue 1

Controversial Issues

Name: ______________________

Topic: Media & Society These questions represent some of the most basic information and questions to consider in forming an educated opinion on this particular controversial issue. Part of your total grade for the controversial issue will come from these questions and they also represent potential questions that will make up your final exam. You may put your answers on this sheet or another sheet, if you do so please number them.
1. Define media and discuss how it is intertwined into our daily lives; provide five prominent ways.

2. Find 3 out of 4statistics/cite related to media and..(Honors: Find one stat/cite for each). Drugs/Alcohol Violence

Sex

Body Image or Other(______________)

3. Find 3 out of 4 statistics/cite related to media and..(Honors: Find one stat for each). TV Consumption Internet Usage

Video Game Usage

Magazine Consumption or Other (___________)

4. In what ways does the media have a positive impact? (Honors: Provide 3 stats/cite on the positive impact?)

5. In your opinion, to what extent does the media desensitize us as a society? Explain your answer

6. In your opinion, to what extent does the media play a role in creating or altering social norms? Explain your answer.(Honors: Provide one example in current day tv and how it applies to your explanation).

7. Does the fact that companies spend billions of dollars advertising prove the notion that the media does in fact have an impact on our behavior? Explain your response. (Honors: Find 2 statistics related to how much money is spent advertising to adolescents and teenagers).

8. The big question here is to what extent the media has an influence on the behaviors of an individual and ultimately society as a whole? What are 3 other potential reasons for the so called decline in American moral? (Honors: Find two statistics out of the three reasons you provide).

9.

One notable study done related to this field was the Bobo Doll experiment. Please answer the following: The Name of the Researcher: Year: Brief Study Summary:

Define Observational Learning:

How might this apply AND not apply to media?

(Honors: What are the criticism(s) of this particular study?)