Match the List-I with List-II LIST I — Concept LIST II — Description A.…

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Match the List-I with List-II

LIST I — Concept

LIST II — Description

A. Audience imperialism

I. Mediated aggression to reduce people's aggressive behaviour

B. Catharsis

II. Selecting news sources based on ideology

C. Siloing

III. Early media exposure of the world to children

D. Early Window

IV. Too much preference to audience activity

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer: D. A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-IIIConcept — A concept-to-description matching item in media studies is fixed by the KIND of claim each term makes, not by the words the term happens to contain.…

  1. A.

    A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV

  2. B.

    A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I

  3. C.

    A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II

  4. D.

    A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III

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Correct answer: D

Concept — A concept-to-description matching item in media studies is fixed by the KIND of claim each term makes, not by the words the term happens to contain. Four kinds of claim recur:

  • An effects hypothesis states what exposure does to a viewer’s drives.

  • A socialisation metaphor states what a medium shows a developing audience.

  • A selective-exposure concept states how audiences choose among the sources available to them.

  • A meta-theoretical critique states an error researchers make when they describe audiences.

Recovering each term’s originating claim first converts one four-way matching problem into four independent one-to-one decisions.

Application — Anchoring every List-I term to the research tradition that coined it gives:

Concept

Originating claim

List-II description

Audience imperialism

A critique raised against active-audience research (Biocca, 1988): crediting audiences with almost unlimited interpretive power makes the audience "imperial" and lets the structural power of media institutions drop out of the analysis.

IV. Too much preference to audience activity

Catharsis

The Aristotelian purgation idea carried into media-effects research (Feshbach): watching mediated aggression is held to discharge stored aggressive drive, so overt aggression should fall after exposure rather than rise.

I. Mediated aggression to reduce people’s aggressive behaviour

Siloing

Audiences confine their news diet to outlets that already share their ideological position, producing information silos (echo chambers) with little cross-cutting exposure.

II. Selecting news sources based on ideology

Early Window

From Liebert, Neale and Davidson’s The Early Window (1973): television acts as the child’s first window onto a world that lies beyond direct personal experience.

III. Early media exposure of the world to children

Cross-check — The mapping has to be a bijection: every List-II description is consumed exactly once. Sorting the descriptions by side confirms it. The two content-side descriptions — mediated aggression lowering aggressive behaviour, and early exposure of the world to children — attach to the two terms that state what content does to viewers. The two audience-side descriptions — ideology-based source selection, and excess weight on audience activity — attach to the term about how audiences choose and the term about how researchers theorise audiences. Nothing is left over and nothing is used twice.

Result — A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III.

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