After reading Potter & Bolls Chaper 1 you should be familiar with the following vocabulary as it applies to the topic at hand:
Stimulus-Response (S-R) Model
Social Learning Theory
Confederate
Orienting Response
S-I-R Model
And you should be able to answer these questions after reading Potter & Bolls Chapter 1:
1. How did the work of Pavlov and other behaviorists influence the development of the Shannon-Weaver Model of communication?
2. Explain how the S-R approach is reflected in the "second debut" of physiological methods in media research.
3. Describe the major principals of the information processing approach.