Which of the Following Is a Challenge for Understanding How

question 41

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a challenge for understanding how media shapes our attitudes?

• A) Researchers rely on surveys and people are rarely interested in completing surveys about media.
• B) Researchers rely on people's self-reports of what media they have watched, which could be inaccurate.
• C) The studies often have poor internal validity.
• D) Researchers rely on measures that are difficult for people to understand.

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Definitions:

Repressed Urges

Desires or impulses that have been pushed into the unconscious because they are considered unacceptable or too painful to acknowledge consciously.

Oedipus Complex

A psychoanalytic theory that describes a child's feelings of desire for the opposite-sex parent and jealousy and competitiveness with the same-sex parent.

Developmental Process

The series of changes or growth that an organism undergoes over its lifespan, from conception to death.

False Memories

An occurrence in which an individual remembers an event inaccurately or remembers something that never actually took place.