CMN 10Y FINAL: 2 - ENTERTAINMENT EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Entertainment
Amusement and pleasure provided by performers
Entertainment
Agreeable occupation for the mind
Entertainment
Positive, agreeable, pleasurable, engaging, involving
Media
Primarily intended or used for entertainment
Theories for why humans seek entertainment
Entertainment and Self
Entertainment and Evolution
Entertainment and Self
Limited self
Seeking freedom
Entertainment and Self
Moving beyond self, creating an alternative self
Entertainment and Evolution
Accident of our evolution
Entertainment and Evolution
, Traits combine to create want for entertainment
Cognitive capacity, symbolic reasoning and communication ability
"Uses and Gratifications Research"
Created and used in the 1980s/1990s
"Uses and Gratifications Research"
Simply ask straight forward questions about why people choose the entertainment they
do
Look for patterns among answers
"Uses and Gratifications Research" answers
Escape, emotion, company, relation, enjoyment
Motivational Differences
Usually motives are the same
Small differences in reality vs fiction shows
Assumptions for why humans seek entertainment
People have rational reasons for their choices
Assumptions for why humans seek entertainment
Motivations are often non-rational or conscious
Assumptions for why humans seek entertainment
People can accurately identify and articulate why they do what they want
Social scientific methods for why humans choose entertainment
Speculate, theorize, hyphothesize, test hypothesis
Use media to alter or change mood
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Entertainment
Amusement and pleasure provided by performers
Entertainment
Agreeable occupation for the mind
Entertainment
Positive, agreeable, pleasurable, engaging, involving
Media
Primarily intended or used for entertainment
Theories for why humans seek entertainment
Entertainment and Self
Entertainment and Evolution
Entertainment and Self
Limited self
Seeking freedom
Entertainment and Self
Moving beyond self, creating an alternative self
Entertainment and Evolution
Accident of our evolution
Entertainment and Evolution
, Traits combine to create want for entertainment
Cognitive capacity, symbolic reasoning and communication ability
"Uses and Gratifications Research"
Created and used in the 1980s/1990s
"Uses and Gratifications Research"
Simply ask straight forward questions about why people choose the entertainment they
do
Look for patterns among answers
"Uses and Gratifications Research" answers
Escape, emotion, company, relation, enjoyment
Motivational Differences
Usually motives are the same
Small differences in reality vs fiction shows
Assumptions for why humans seek entertainment
People have rational reasons for their choices
Assumptions for why humans seek entertainment
Motivations are often non-rational or conscious
Assumptions for why humans seek entertainment
People can accurately identify and articulate why they do what they want
Social scientific methods for why humans choose entertainment
Speculate, theorize, hyphothesize, test hypothesis
Use media to alter or change mood
