Practice

Growing Up with Media — Practice

15 questions 15 min Recall + understand

Q1. In the present-day scenario media is best described as
- A. a peer who is available 24x7 with the children and influences their mental, emotional and social well-being
- B. a passive textbook that only delivers school content
- C. a tool that affects only physical health, not the mind
- D. a service used only by adults, not adolescents
Q2. Interactive technology, viewed as 'a cultural tool for mediating social interactions', is best placed under whose theoretical framework?
- A. Piaget's stages of cognitive development
- B. Erikson's psychosocial stages
- C. Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory
- D. Kohlberg's stages of moral development
Q3. Which two tenets of Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory as deeply resonating with children's lives in the digital age?
- A. assimilation and accommodation
- B. id, ego and superego
- C. trust vs mistrust and autonomy vs shame
- D. dominant activity and Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
Q4. The Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) is
- A. the distance between the child's actual developmental level and his or her potential level of development under the guidance of more expert adults
- B. the age at which a child first uses a smartphone
- C. the gap between IQ score and school grades
- D. the time a child spends watching television each day
Q5. The phenomenon by which a child constructs understanding through social events in the world — for example, accessing adult-targeted sites on the internet to increase knowledge — is called
- A. conditioning
- B. rote learning
- C. scaffolding
- D. imprinting
Q6. Studies link excessive media use in children to all of the following EXCEPT
- A. attention problems
- B. school difficulties
- C. sleep and eating disorders, and obesity
- D. improved long-term memory and concentration
Q7. Computer games and educational apps as making the learning of which skill 'interesting and funny as well' for younger children?
- A. literacy skills
- B. driving skills
- C. swimming skills
- D. cooking skills
Q8. When younger children play computer games and use educational videos, they develop helping behaviours such as cooperation, coordination, sharing, giving way and taking lead — thereby acquiring
- A. gross motor skills only
- B. phonological awareness
- C. social skills
- D. hand-eye coordination only
Q9. Although technological advancements during the 1990s opened up a variety of TV programmes, television ended up being a means of
- A. world news only
- B. infotainment rather than what people had hoped for
- C. purely educational programming
- D. live theatre broadcasts
Q10. Many TV serials cast the working woman as 'the epitome of modern values' while the housewife embodies
- A. individual ambition
- B. Indian values, with modernisation and westernisation equated with moral degradation
- C. scientific outlook
- D. rebellion against tradition
Q11. Many media portray adolescents as
- A. emotional, overly dramatic, immature and unable to take rational decisions
- B. balanced, calm and academically focused
- C. shy and uninterested in peers
- D. indistinguishable from young adults in their responsibilities
Q12. Teachers are advised to keep on explaining to children that violence shown in the media is
- A. the most effective way to settle disputes
- B. always the truth as broadcast
- C. irrelevant to a child's behaviour
- D. for entertainment only and not for realistic problem-solving
Q13. 'digiphrenia' is defined as
- A. fear of digital devices
- B. the experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of oneself at the same time
- C. addiction to short videos only
- D. loss of digital memory after a screen-free week
Q14. One parental strategy advises: 'Adopt co-viewing as a form of intervention. For example, when watching a violent programme, parents can…'
- A. switch off the TV immediately without comment
- B. explain the effect of violence in one's life
- C. leave the child alone to interpret the content
- D. make the child memorise the dialogues
Q15. Among the issues that in-service teacher training workshops should address are sudden changes in children's personality and behaviour such as
- A. getting irritated more often, getting more weepy or withdrawn
- B. scoring higher in unit tests
- C. befriending only senior teachers
- D. becoming overly punctual at assembly

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