MCQ Bank
Which one of the following is traditional folk media?
- A) Music
- B) Dancing
- C) Mime
- D) Singing
____________ refers to bolster participation from a variety of organizations and to support outreach efforts.
- A) Social mobilization
- B) Media advocacy
- C) Social marketing
- D) Conventional media
Which of the following is a paradigms rest on the premise of (limitless) economic growth?
- A) Global
- B) Neo marxist and neo classical
- C) Technological
- D) Neo traditional
___________ argued that the problems of underdevelopment were not internal to third world countries but were determined by external factors.
- A) Modernization theorist
- B) Diffusion theorist
- C) Dependency theorists
- D) Dominant theorist
Who offered the concept of liberating education that conceived communication as dialogue and participation?
- A) Altafin
- B) Okunna
- C) Hamelink
- D) Freire
Dominant paradigm uses _______________ communication to spread development.
- A) Top Down
- B) Right left
- C) Horizontal
- D) Bottom to Top
People move into cities to seek _________ opportunities.
- A) Social
- B) Ethical
- C) Economic
- D) Professional
Development communication refers to the combination of actions by:
- A) Donors
- B) Civil Society
- C) Government
- D) All of the given options
Which of the following refers to the process by which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of a social system?
- A) Modernization
- B) Globalization
- C) Diffusion
- D) Demotion
Participatory theorists argued that the _____________ proposed a conception of development associated with a Western vision of progress.
- A) David Berlo’s Model
- B) SMCR Model
- C) Linear Model
- D) Diffusion Model
Which one is NOT among the five freedoms of Amartya Sen’s concept of development?
- A) Social opportunities
- B) Choices and capabilities
- C) Economic facilities
- D) Political freedom
Development originally meant the process by which Third World societies could become more like Western developed societies as measured in terms of:
- A) Economic growth
- B) All of the given options
- C) Political system
- D) Educational levels
Which of the following criticized the modernization paradigm on the grounds that it promoted a top-down, ethnocentric and paternalistic view of development?
- A) Participatory theories
- B) Dominant theories
- C) Modernization theories
- D) Dependency theories
____________originally meant the process by which Third World societies could become more like Western developed societies as measured in terms of political system, economic growth, and educational levels.
- A) Communication
- B) Education
- C) Globalization
- D) Development
The “diffusion of innovations” theory was elaborated by:
- A) Wilbur Schramm
- B) Everett Rogers
- C) Katz
- D) Daniel Lerner
The ___________approach has had several consequences for media production on the continent
- A) ‘Functionalist’
- B) ‘Dependency-dissociation paradigm’
- C) ‘Modernization paradigm’
- D) ‘Dominant paradigm’
Urbanization is attributed to growth of ___________.
- A) Villages
- B) Towns
- C) Nations
- D) Cities
Industrialization began in Japan in
- A) 20th century
- B) 21st century
- C) 18th century
- D) 19th century
Methodologies and tools in development communication projects are used to spread information and contribute to which of the following?
- A) Behavioral change
- B) Political change
- C) Economic change
- D) Religious change
Which phrase stands for GNP?
- A) Gross National Product
- B) Grand Nation Presentation
- C) Grand Nationwide Partnership
- D) Greater Nottingham Partnership