Why Is It Hard to Know Whether Exposure to Messages

question 32

Multiple Choice

Why is it hard to know whether exposure to messages about drinking and smoking actually change adolescents' behaviors?

• A) Adolescents are not exposed to the mass media as blank slates.
• B) When adolescents are exposed to the mass media, they bring preexisting values, beliefs, and expectations to the experience of watching or listening to mass media.
• C) Preexisting values, beliefs, and expectations influence what adolescents perceive, what they pay attention to, and what they remember.
• D) All of these statements are true.

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Definitions:

Schizophrenia

A chronic and severe mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves, characterized by delusions, hallucinations, and other cognitive impairments.

Tardive Dyskinesia

A neurological syndrome characterized by repetitive, involuntary movements, often resulting from long-term use of certain psychiatric medications.

Antipsychotic Drugs

Medications primarily used to manage psychosis, including delusions, hallucinations, paranoia, or disordered thought, seen in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

Motor Control

involves the processes by which humans and animals use their brain and muscles to execute and coordinate physical actions.