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Technology in Action
Chapter 1 - Check Your Understanding
Multiple Choice
1. Automated bot accounts use social media
a. responsibly.
b. to help humans who are busy.
c. to manipulate opinion by posting news stories and quotes massive
numbers of times.
d. in some countries but they are illegal in the U.S.
2. The digital divide occurred because
a. the United States has the fastest Internet access.
b. not everyone has equal access to the Internet.
c. crowdfunding is increasing.
d. everyone now has a smartphone.
3. Cognitive surplus means that we now find many people with
a. more money than free time.
b. limited access to the Internet.
c. mobile devices.
d. excess time and free tools for collaboration.
4. Being computer literate means that you can
a. read about computers.
b. program in Java.
c. use Twitter.
d. use computers efficiently and safely.
5. Collaborative consumption is when people get together to
a. find the best prices on products.
b. increase the use of a single product by sharing access to it.
c. fight diseases of the respiratory tract.
d. exchange reviews on services and goods they have purchased.
6. _________ is a branch of computer science that focuses on creating
computer systems or
computer-controlled machines that have an ability to perform tasks
usually associated with
human intelligence.
a. Computer literacy
b. Artificial intelligence
c. Natural language
d. Information technology
7. AI systems that help people discover things they may like but are
unlikely to discover on
their own are known as
a. crowdsourcing systems.
b. Turing testers.
c. recommendation engines.
d. intelligent personal assistants.
8. A working definition of ethics is
a. impossible because it means different things to different people.
b. the laws of a given society.
c. the study of the general nature of morals and of the specific moral
choices individuals
make.
d. the rules of conduct presented in Christian religions.
9. The set of formal or informal ethical principles you use to make
decisions is your
a. mindset.
b. instinct.
c. personal ethics.
d. personality.
10. Digital forensics is the study of
a. digital art.
b. digital data that is evidence of a crime.
c. using data to predict stocks.
d. writings on the nature of the digital divide.
11. The crisis-mapping tool Ushahidi
a. prevents two-way dialog between people.
b. is only available in the United States.
c. shows that a free software product can have great value.
d. relies on people using their desktop computing power to help others.
12. Sophisticated modeling software is helping international researchers
a. create more intricate screenplays and movie scripts.
b. analyze computer systems to gather potential legal evidence.
c. market new types of products to a wider audience.
d. increase the pace of research in finding and producing vaccines.
13. Which of the following would NOT impact the digital divide?
a. A decline in the price of internet access
b. Less sharing of the work we produce
c. Expansion of free Wi-Fi connectivity in major cities
d. Legislation allowing communications companies to charge per website
for access
14. Crowdfunding sites include
a. Citi Bike and Zipcar.
b. Bing and Google.
c. Kickstarter and GoFundMe.
d. Facebook and Instagram
15. The sharing economy is exemplified by
a.Citi Bike and Zipcar.
b. Bing and Google.
c. Kickstarter and GoFundMe.
d. Amazon and Netflix.
16. Being computer literate includes being able to
a. avoid spam, adware, and spyware.
b. use the web effectively.
c. diagnose and fix hardware and software problems.
d. all of the above
17. Unsupervised learning in an artificial training system improves
a. without being given specific data examples.
b.by using training data.
c. by using virtual reality scenarios.
d. by using augmented reality data.
18. Which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Unethical behavior is always illegal.
b. Ethical decisions are usually influenced by personal ethics.
c. Individuals who have no sense of right or wrong exhibit amoral
behavior.
d. Life experience affects an individual’s personal ethics.
19. Which of the following actions would NOT help to identify your
personal ethics?
a. Describe yourself.
b. Conduct a genealogic study of your extended family.
c. Identify the influences of your work environment.
d. Prepare a list of values that are most important to you.
20. Intellectual property
a. is the result of someone’s creative work and design.
b. can be protected legally by the patent system.
c. can include works of music, film, or engineering design.
d. all of the above.
True/False
1. Intellectual property can be legally protected even though it is not a
physical object.
True
2. The move toward access instead of ownership is a sign of cognitive
surplus.
True
3. Machine learning systems analyze patterns in data to improve their
performance
automatically.
True
4. Web-based databases cannot be used to help investigators solve
criminal cases.
False
5. Hactivism is different from cyberterrorism.
True
