(Finals) Philippine Popular Culture Mocktest

46 questions • 9 mo ago

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__________ is defined as the scientific study of the mind and behavior, actively involved in studying and understanding the various mental processes, brain functions, and behavior of humans

psychology

_________ is the accumulation of all its elements capable of sustaining and perpetuating itself based on the endorsement and participation of the people through their own volition (i.e., self-agency)

popular culture

There are four (4) major players behind the psychological effects of popular culture in its aspects:

psychological, sociological, critical, semiotics

It is where stereotypes are being challenged constantly.

Queer Theory

Carl Jung came up with the idea of ____________ which are images and themes that come from the collective unconscious.

Jungian archetypes

This archetype represents an authority figure

Father

archetype represents the well-known maternal instincts – nurturing and comforting

Mother

This archetype represents a person’s views of children – full of innocence, renewed life, and salvation.

Child

Which is NOT an example of a morally positive Father

Marlon Brando

Which is NOT an example of a morally negative Father

Gregory Peck

Which is NOT an example of Morally Negative Mother

Mine-a

Which is NOT an example of Morally Positive Mother

Cersei Lannister

Which is NOT an example of a morally positive Child

Dudley Dursley

Which is NOT an example of a morally negative Child

Scott Lang

is a way to think about culture, history, and politics that looks at things that aren't words.

Affect Theory

is a term that describes any and all psychological ideologies, therapies, and other techniques that gained traction through media

Popular psychology

a form of therapy where guests make public confessions about a specific topic while guest specialists will listen and offer sound advice to them [guests].

Oprahfication

It is where some of the working class begin to lose themselves to the icons and/or trends they wholeheartedly follow, to the point of devotion.

Identity erosion

which is a popular trend that is mostly based on false, stereotypical ideas about indigenous people, has become a big thing in pop culture.

Tribalism

The individual can't leave his or her culture but can only see himself or herself in it, not outside of it.

Culturalism

The individual can't leave his or her culture but can only see himself or herself in it, not outside of it.

Culturalism

it is where culture has been split into two main groups: one that looks for and celebrates "authentic" grassroots culture, and the other that looks into how consumerism and the society of the spectacle make it easier for people to dominate culture.

Marxism

It rejects universal explanations and instead focuses on the relative truths of each individual

Postmodernism

Genre is derived from the French (and originally Latin) word for ____ or _____

kind, class

It explains that the concept of genre is a creation of media artists in order to help them classify their works so that they can identify their target audience and better promote their work.

Genre Theory

It explains how individual characteristics such as race, class, and gender, among others, “intersect” with one another.

Intersectionality

are interpretations of work by fans that are debated, compared, and shared in various fan communities.

Fan theories

headcanon is an example of...?

Fan theories

It is simply defined as the study of signs.

Semiotics

A Swiss linguist and semiotician, ___________ offered a dyadic or two-part model of the study of signs.

Ferdinand de Saussure

In Semiotics by Saussure, It is a form that the sign takes

Signifier

In Semiotics by Saussure, It is the concept the sign represents.

Signified

He offered a triadic model of semiotics.

Charles Sanders Peirce

He offered a triadic model of semiotics.

Charles Sanders Peirce

In Semiotics by Pierce, it is the form which the sign takes (but not necessarily material);

Representamen

In Semiotics by Pierce, it is the sense made of the sign (not an interpreter)

Interpretant

In Semiotics by Pierce, it is to which the sign refers.

Object

He proposed the idea that there are distinct levels of signification (levels of meaning). The first level of signification is the denotation, where a sign is made up of a signifier and a signified. Connotation is a second-order signification that employs the initial sign (signifier and signified) as its signifier and adds an extra signified to it.

Roland Barthes

In Semiotics by Barthes, it refers to the definitional (dictionary definition) or literary meaning of a sign

Denotation

In Semiotics by Barthes, it refers to the socio- cultural and personal association of the sign.

Connotation

It refers to the use of various sensory and communication channels to convey meaning in a message.

Multimodality

It "always involves transformation, and what exactly gets transformed depends on the interests, goals, and values of the context into which the practice is recontextualized.”

Recontextualization

This is the process wherein some aspects are deleted in any social practice (such as people, action, setting, etc.) as no representations in social practice can represent all the aspects of it.

Deletion

This is the process where elements were added to represent the text even further.

Addition

This is the process wherein there are changes or rearrangements by abstractions and generalizations in order to represent events or texts accordingly.

Substitution

This is the process where the events and people are generalized in the text.

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