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Title: HSS 105 Test 1 Chapters 1-5
1. Volti 6th Ed, Ch4006
___ stated that “there is often no a priori reason to do one thing rather than another, particularly if neither had been done before.”
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A. Eugene Ferguson
2. Volti 6th ed, Ch2009
The pneumatic molding machines adopted by the McCormick reaper manufacturing plants in the 1880s ___.
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C. Produced an inferior product
3. Volti 6th ed,Ch1003
Volti states that technological enthusiasm is primarily about ___.
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B. National prestige
4. Volti 6th Ed,Ch3006
The ____ industry is an industry less likely to be shaped by concerns about costs.
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. Defense
5. Volti 6th Ed, Ch4003
The ___study determined that a number of innovations, such as videocassette recorders, depended on prior scientific research.
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. TRACES
6. Volti 6th ed, Ch2010
Luddite assaults came to an end due to all of the following except ___.
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. Exile to Canada
7. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 5001
Which of the following is not critical for the successful adoption of foreign technology?
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Ability to copy an example of a machine
8. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 5006
China at the end of 2007 had an approximate ratio of one car per 23 persons, about ___ the ratio in the developed countries.
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. 1/10
9. Volti 6th ed,Ch1010
According to Volti, belief in UFOs represents ___.
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A. Faith in higher technology
B. Distrust of people that control technology
10. Volti 6th ed,Ch1008
___ wrote that “All my means are sane, my motive and subject mad.”
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Herman Melville
11. Volti 6th ed,Ch1009
Rationality implies all of the following except ___.
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D. Subjectivity
12. Volti 6th ed, Ch2002
According to Volti, technological changes often lead to ___.
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. Redistributing wealth and income
13. Volti 6th Ed,Ch3009
___ stated that “The idea that an invention reaches a stage of commercial profitability first and is then ‘introduced’ is… simple minded.”
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. Nathan Rosenberg
14. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 5002
Which of the following is not a problem associated with transferring technologies to less developed nations?
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Use technologies that are still relatively labor intensive
15. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 5008
The ___ was Paul David’s term for the number of acres that would justify the purchase of the mechanical reaper.
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Threshold size
16. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 5004
According to Volti, ___ was the country that had produced the most technological innovations up to 1500.
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. China
17. Volti 6th Ed,Ch3010
Agricultural extension agents struggled to introduce hybrid corn to New Mexico farmers in the late 1940s due to ___.
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. Characteristics of the cornmeal produced
18. Volti 6th ed, Ch2005
Technological fixes cannot always work because ___.
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Social and technical problems differ in their specificity
19. Volti 6th Ed,Ch3002
According to Thomas Hughes, social constructivism is most valid when ___.
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. A technology is at an early stage of development
20. Volti 6th ed,Ch1002
___ explains that technologies often develop alternative purposes.
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. Law of the Hammer
21. Volti 6th Ed,Ch3012
___ stated “Utility is in my opinion the test of value in matters of invention, and that a discovery which can be applied to no use, or is not good for something is good for nothing.”
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. Benjamin Franklin
22. Volti 6th ed,Ch1005
Which of the following is an example of a failure of technology?
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A. Bhopal chemical plant
B. Chernobyl nuclear plant
C. Space shuttle Columbia
D. All of the above
23. Volti 6th Ed,Ch3008
According to Volti, the development of penicillin provides an excellent illustration of the many facets of the ___ process.
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. Scaling-up
24. Volti 6th ed,Ch1007
___ is a method of controlling a system by reinserting in it the results of its past performance.
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25. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 5005
___ relied on foreign technology as a means of developing economic strength.
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A. Great Britain
B. Japan
C. United States
D. All of the above
26. Volti 6th Ed, Ch4005
Johannes Kepler developed and employed the calculus of variation in order to ___.
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. Derive optimum dimensions of beer
kegs
27. Volti 6th Ed, Ch4007
Scientific theories must be logically consistent and rationally articulated, but their ultimate source is ___.
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. Human creativity
28. Volti 6th ed, Ch2007
According to Volti, The introduction of steel axes to the Yir Yoront resulted in all of the following except ___.
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. Increased cultural stability
29. Volti 6th ed, Ch2006
Scientific Management involves all of the following except___.
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Worker adaptation to workplace problems
30. Volti 6th Ed,Ch3007
If the traffic loads borne in 1910 had been carried by railroads employing the technologies of 1870, the additional costs would have amounted to ___.
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$1.3 billion
31. Volti 6th ed, Ch2015
Today, the term “Luddite” implies opposition to modern technology.
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True
32. Volti 6th Ed, Ch4011
Technological problems can be often solved with no understanding of what is going on.
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True
33. Volti 6th ed,Ch1012
Technological progress is not the same as progress in general.
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True
34. Volti 6th Ed,Ch3017
Agricultural extension agents successfully introduced hybrid corn to New Mexico farmers in the late 1940s.
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False
35. Volti 6th Ed,Ch3013
The research component of R&D is the most expensive.
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False
36. Volti 6th ed, Ch2013
Technologies fall or stand on their intrinsic merits.
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False
37. Volti 6th Ed,Ch3019
Centrally planned economies rest on the assumption that economic activities can be reduced to predictable routines.
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True
38. Volti 6th ed,Ch1015
According to Volti, when confronting technology, most of us are poorly informed spectators.
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True
39. Volti 6th Ed,Ch3016
A bottleneck that restricts the continued development of a particular technology creates strong economic incentives to find new technologies that clear the obstruction.
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True
40. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 5012
According to Mira Wilkins, “Often the product, or the description in the patent, or mere drawings and instructions, are adequate for transfers of technology.”
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False
41. Volti 6th ed, Ch2014
The basic fallacy of Scientific Management is that politics can replace administration.
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False
42. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 5013
Although the mechanical reaper was invented in the 1830s, 20 years elapsed before it evolved into a workable implement.
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True
43. Volti 6th ed,Ch1014
Technology has generated massive powers available to human society and as individuals we exert much of that power.
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False
44. Volti 6th ed,Ch1011
Manifestations of human creativity, like technology, tend to be dynamic and cumulative.
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45. Volti 6th Ed, Ch4014
An excessive focus on the principles and methods of science may restrict creativity and lead to an overly rigid approach to the solving of technical problems.
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46. Volti 6th Ed, Ch4013
When knowledge is “pushed” from science into technology, it often happens indirectly.
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True
47. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 5011
The effective use of foreign technologies requires a labor force with a broad range of skills.
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True
48. Volti 6th ed, Ch2016
The federal government is a relatively minor source of financial support for research and development.
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False
49. Volti 6th Ed, Ch4010
Project Hindsight researchers found that a median delay of nine years separated the completion of a scientific research project from its application.
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True
50. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 5010
The economic success of the European continent was based on their focus on internal technological developments.
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False
****** Question 9 shows answers “A” & “B” – this is correct because the answer is both of them. Hope this clears up (if any) concerns.Title: HSS 105 Test 2 Chapters 6-11
1. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 7010
Which of the following is not a problem associated with diagnostic technologies?
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A. Increased standardization of medical practices
2. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 8005
At least ___ percent of processed foods found in American supermarkets contain one or more genetically modified ingredients.
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3. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 8006
___ stated that “From the moment of conception, environmental factors and genetic factors are in an ongoing ‘dialogue’ with one another about building a person.”
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David Moore
4. Volti 6th ed, Ch 10003
Technological advances will not lead to job losses if the demand for products or services ___ at the same pace as ___ in productivity.
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Increase, Increase
5. Volti 6th ed, Ch 11007
Division of labor does all of the following except ___.
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Makes use of skilled laborers
6. Volti 6th ed, Ch 6002
The greenhouse effect involves all of the following except ___.
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The inability of radiant energy to penetrate the earth’s atmosphere
7. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 8001
___ found that chromosomes were the site of the key agent of heredity.
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Thomas Hunt Morgan
8. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 7009
According to the study mentioned in the text, ___ percent of tests performed could have been eliminated with no evident loss in the quality of patient care.
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9. Volti 6th ed, Ch 10006
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which of the following occupational categories has the largest estimated numerical employment increase in the United States from 2006 to 2016?
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Service
10. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 8002
The Human Genome Project completed and published their sequencing in ___.
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2003
11. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 7002
Which of the following is not associated with medical care in regions with large proportions of specialists?
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Reduced periods of hospitalization
12. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 7008
Which of the following is not an accurate statement about the Jarvik-7 artificial heart?
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The FDA approved its use as a permanent replacement for a human heart
13. Volti 6th ed, Ch 6008
Improved energy intensity in the United States can be partly attributed to ___.
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The growth of the service industry
14. Volti 6th ed, Ch 6005
According to the text, which of the following is not a consequence of soil erosion?
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The decrease of costs associated with farming
15. Volti 6th ed, Ch 9001
Technologies in “primitive” societies are simple due to all of the following except ___.
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Reliance on division of labor
16. Volti 6th ed, Ch 9003
Marshall Sahlins stated that “the amount of work per capita ___ with the evolution of culture, and the amount of leisure per capita ___.”
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Increases, Decreases
17. Volti 6th ed, Ch 11004
Which of the following was not a consequence of the Factory system?
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More informal managerial methods
18. Volti 6th ed, Ch 10004
According to the text, the automobile is directly or indirectly responsible for at least one out of every ___ jobs in the American economy.
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19. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 7004
Which of the following categories was responsible for the greatest percentage of medical payments in 1960?
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Individual families
20. Volti 6th ed, Ch 6009
Highly centralized governments may struggle with improving environmental policies for all of the following reasons except ___.
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They can force people to sacrifice their individual interests
21. Volti 6th ed, Ch 6011
The United States has less than five percent of the world’s population but it consumes ___ percent of the world’s resources.
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22. Volti 6th ed, Ch 11002
___ stated that “Wanting to abolish authority in large-scale industry is tantamount to wanting to abolish industry itself….”
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Friedrich Engels
23. Volti 6th ed, Ch 11003
The putting out system ___.
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Resulted in a slow pace of production
24. Volti 6th ed, Ch 6010
The American economy may struggle with improving environmental policies due to ___.
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Government programs aimed at keeping the price of energy low
25. Volti 6th ed, Ch 9004
The earliest form of agriculture is ___.
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Sedentary Farming
26. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 7001
Which of the following has contributed the least to gains in life span and improvements in the physical quality of life?
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Antibiotics
27. Volti 6th ed, Ch 10001
What did the Jackson, Mississippi, Daily News in the late 1930s state should be “driven right out of the cotton fields and sunk into the Mississippi River”?
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Mechanical cotton pickers
28. Volti 6th ed, Ch 11001
The factory system controlled the temporal aspects of work as it controlled ___.
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The pace of work, the time of work, and the length of the work day
29. Volti 6th ed, Ch 10010
All of the following except ___ have contributed to growing income inequality.
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Increases in government benefits for the poor
30. Volti 6th ed, Ch 6006
According to the text, which of the following is not an accurate characteristic of nuclear energy?
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It can be used as a substitute for fossil fuel use
31. Volti 6th ed, Ch 6016
The federal government’s generally weak and wavering support of R&D is one of the reasons that reliance on fossil fuels has decreased only marginally since 1973.
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32. Volti 6th ed, Ch 10015
According to Volti, the more “productive” a service job is, the more satisfying it is for the consumer.
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False
33. Volti 6th ed, Ch 10016
The private sector generally has failed to take a leading role in improving worker’s skills because employers fear that their workers will use their newly acquired skills to obtain better paying positions elsewhere.
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True
34. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 7013
Payments for patients in their last year of life account for over 40 percent of Medicare
expenditures.
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False
35. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 7014
An informal study of cardiologists showed that half of bypass operations are performed with no clear indication of their necessity.
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False
36. Volti 6th ed, Ch 11017
Most of the jobs with the largest numerical employment increases projected from 2002 to 2012 require advanced training.
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False
37. Volti 6th ed, Ch 9013
With slave labor, there is little incentive to develop and introduce labor-saving machinery.
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True
38. Volti 6th ed, Ch 10017
Unemployment is much more likely to occur during periods of technological advance.
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False
39. Volti 6th ed, Ch 6012
According to the text, half of the years from 1995 to 2006 ranked among the 12 warmest years since 1850.
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False
40. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 8007
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1980 that a human-made organism was not entitled to patent protection.
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False
41. Volti 6th ed, Ch 6015
The solar energy that strikes the earth in 10 minutes equals the world’s annual consumption of energy.
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False
42. Volti 6th ed, Ch 10012
Examples conclusively prove that technological advance is incompatible with high levels of employment.
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False
43. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 7012
The Seattle Artificial Kidney Center Admissions and Policy Committee made life-or death decisions about the use of limited resources based on the presumed worth of the patient.
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True
44. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 7015
Only 21 percent of Americans indicate a willingness to ration costly new medical technologies.
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True
45. Volti 6th ed, Ch 11016
Today the typical workplace is not the factory but the office.
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True
46. Volti 6th ed, Ch 6013
In 2006 Americans generated an average of 4.6 pounds of municipal solid waste per person every day.
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True
47. Volti 6th ed, Ch 10014
Over the last century, many of the jobs performed by manufacturing workers have been lost to mechanization, yet total employment has undergone a massive increase.
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True
48. Volti 6th ed, Ch 11014
The “putting-out” system was popular before the Industrial Revolution.
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True
49. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 8013
The U.S. government has barred the use of federal funds for human cloning research.
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True
50. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 8010
Humans have an estimated 20-25,000 genes arrayed along the 46 chromosomes found in every cell.
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True
Title: HSS 105 Test 3 Chapters 12-15
1. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 15011
Which of the following is not a classification of chemical weapons?
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Bacterial
2. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 14008
By the year 1914 more than ___ percent of the world’s land mass was dominated by Europe.
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3. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 12010
The first American penny paper made its appearance in the ____.
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1830s
4. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 14005
By the middle of the sixteenth century the fortified castles that had long been immune to direct attack were now vulnerable due to all of the following innovations except ____.
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Mobile artillery
5. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 13015
According to the text, which of the following is an explanation for falling CD sales?
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A. Appeal of alternative forms of entertainment
B. High prices
C. Lack of new and interesting music
6. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 12009
Which of the following represents the correct chronological listing (from earliest to latest in time)?
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Steam-powered printing press, Rotary press, Linotype machine
7. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 13012
Video game addiction is characterized by all of the following except ___.
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Severe bouts of insomnia
8. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 15002
According to Volti, firearms were particularly well suited to armies raised by ___.
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Centralized, bureaucratically organized states where discipline was more highly valued than freedom
9. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 13006
The number of hours spent watching television ___ as the education levels of viewers ___.
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Declines, Rises
10. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 15010
___ mandates that all of the nations of Latin America except Cuba remain nuclear free.
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Treaty of Tlateloco
11. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 12001
Which of the following accurately represents how ancient written languages were used?
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A. To keep financial accounts
B. For spiritual purposes
C. To extend influence over others
12. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 15009
___ attempted to restrict the spreading of nuclear weapons.
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Nonproliferation Treaty
13. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 12006
___ praised printing as “God’s highest and extremest act of grace, whereby the business of the Gospel is driven forward.”
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Martin Luther
14. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 13004
Which of these companies was not a major stockholder of RCA?
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British Marconi
15. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 14006
Which of the following represents the correct chronological order from oldest to newest innovation?
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Matchlock, Wheellock, Flintlock
16. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 15004
Post WWI Germany was well suited to embrace new military technologies due to all of the following except ___.
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Thriving German economy in the 1920s allowed for greater military investments
17. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 14007
The development of the battleship resulted in ___.
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A strong impetus to imperial expansion
18. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 14001
Which of the following would not be classified as siege machinery?
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Cross-bow
19. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 13003
The ___ was the first workable electronic television camera.
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Iconoscope
20. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 13007
___% of TV programs contain some violence.
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21. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 12011
Yellow Journalism played a role in ____.
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Declaration of war against Spain
22. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 14009
Strategic bombing ___.
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Resulted in thousands of civilian casualties
23. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 15005
All of the following except ___ were limitations of the B-17.
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Insufficient flight range
24. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 12005
Which of the following was not a consequence of the printing press?
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Unified the Christian church
25. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 14004
Which of the following is not a characteristic of the trebuchet?
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They depended on torsion springs made from hair
26. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 15006
In reference to war, 18th century political thinkers believed ___.
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War was an unfortunate consequence of human behavior
27. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 13011
In 2001 a U.S. Surgeon General report speculated that video games might stimulate more aggressive and violent behavior than television viewing because ___.
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Video game players are actual participants in onscreen violence
28. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 13009
According to the text, humans usually do not commit violent acts for all of the following reasons except ___.
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We have a strong emotion connection to our fellow human beings
29. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 12008
As late as the middle of the eighteenth century, ___ percent of English men and more than ___ percent of English women were illiterate.
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40, 60
30. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 13008
“Naturalistic” studies involve studying the connection of television viewing habits and aggressive behavior by ___.
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Showing two groups of children television programs (one groups’ is violent in nature and the other is not) and then having the children observed at home or school
31. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 15018
Dependency on computers and their networks protects nations from attacks by terrorists.
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False
32. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 14011
According to the text, knightly combat was the most important aspect of medieval warfare.
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False
33. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 15013
The use of firearms did not require high levels of skill.
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True
34. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 13022
Over 70% of the population of North America uses the internet
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True
35. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 14012
Greek fire was more effective as a defensive weapon than as an offensive one.
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True
36. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 12018
The sinking of the American battleship Maine was exploited by yellow journalists.
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True
37. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 14010
The most fearful weapons of antiquity were catapults
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True
38. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 13019
Video games require a level of attention and involvement that television viewing does not require.
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True
39. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 14014
Standardization often acts as an incentive for technological progress.
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False
40. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 14013
European armies of the eighteenth century served as the prototype of new forms of civilian organization.
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True
41. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 12016
Benefit of the Clergy allowed members of the Christian clergy to not be tried by the secular court system.
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True
42. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 15014
The airplane has rendered conventional warfare obsolete.
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False
43. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 13021
In 1970, survey respondents indicated for the first time that television had replaced newspapers as their prime source of news
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False
44. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 13016
Samuel Morse invented broadcast radio in the 1920s
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False
45. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 15019
The goal of terrorism is to generate widespread fear and insecurity among the population that has been targeted
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True
46. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 15012
Weapons are developed and put into service simply because of their intrinsic superiority.
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False
47. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 12012
Of the approximately 5000 languages, over half appear in written form.
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False
48. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 15017
By 1918 for every soldier that died of wounds, five died of disease.
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False
49. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 14016
Increasingly sophisticated weapons have opened the psychological distance between the warrior and his victims.
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True
50. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 12013
Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press.
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False
Title: HSS 105 Test 4 Chapters 16-18
1. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 18010
According to Ernest Fitzgerald, what are the two phases of a major program?
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“It’s too early to tell” and “It’s too late to stop”
2. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 16005
According to Volti, when public choices depend on expert information on a wide spread scale ___.
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Democracy becomes an illusion
3. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 18006
___ percent of “pure” scientific research conducted in the United States is financed by the federal government.
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4. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 18001
The Constitution stipulates that Congress is to “promote the Progress of Science and ___ by securing for limited Tim to Authors and Inventors the Exclusive Rights to their respective Writings and Discoveries.”
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Useful Arts
5. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 17009
Electronic monitoring of employees results in ___.
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Enhanced managerial control
6. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 17012
___ stated “There is a basic incompatibility of the inventor and the large corporation.”
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Jack Kilby
7. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 18004
The private sector supplies about ___ of the funds used for the nation’s R&D efforts.
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8. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 17011
According to the text, it can be reasonably asserted that R&D efforts will be ___ in industries where key technologies are judged to have ___ potential for further development.
Student Response
Value Correct Answer
Feedback
Extensive, High
9. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 17010
Throughout most of the history of the automotive industry, the relationship between suppliers and original equipment manufacturers was ___.
Student Response
Value
Correct Answer
Feedback
That of independent buyers and sellers
10. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 17008
New network-based information technologies allow for ___.
Student Response
Value Correct Answer
Feedback
A. Decentralization of managerial authority
B. Greater centralized managerial control
11. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 16006
According to Volti, when major policy decisions are at stake, experts will likely find that their technical knowledge ___.
Student Response
Value Correct Answer
Feedback
Cannot easily be converted into political influence
12. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 16002
___ stated “Man’s power over nature is really the power of some men over others with nature as their instrument.”
Student Response
Value
Correct Answer
Feedback
C.S. Lewis
13. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 17007
In general, research has indicated that advanced information technologies have done all of the following except ___.
Student Response
Value
Correct Answer
Feedback
Decreased the amount of information
14. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 18005
It can be argued that during the post-World War II era the United States had a de facto policy of supporting technological development, but unlike Japan, much of it has been driven by ___ rather than ___ considerations.
Student Response
Value
Correct Answer
Feedback
Military, Commercial
15. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 18007
The very notion that the government has a legitimate right to regulate private industry originated with ___ in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Student Response
Value Correct Answer
Feedback
The explosion of steam boilers
16. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 16007
According to the text, recommendations of advisory committees of recognized experts are likely to be ignored for all of the following reasons except ___.
Student Response
Value
Correct Answer
Feedback
Their recommendations are not trusted
17. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 18002
Government is involved with technological development in all of the following ways except ____.
Student Response
Value
Correct Answer
Feedback
By creating focusing events
18. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 18003
Volti discusses problems associated with cars, like pollution, as an example of ___.
Student Response
Value Correct Answer
Feedback
Negative externality
19. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 16009
Samuel Florman stated that the characteristics of a good manager were having a feeling for all of the following except ___.
Student Response
Value
Correct Answer
Feedback
Spatial relationships
20. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 16008
According to Kenneth Galbraith, technostructure focuses on ___.
Student Response
Value Correct Answer
Feedback
Managers and engineers with specialized knowledge
21. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 18008
Congress affects the course of technological development through all of the following except ___.
Student Response
Value
Correct Answer
Feedback
Court determinations
22. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 17006
Computerized information systems may be used to ___.
Student Response
Value Correct Answer
Feedback
A. Empower workers
B. Extend the power of managers
C. Give workers claim to higher wages
23. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 16004
Economically developed countries have ___ specialization than less developed ones, making social interactions ___.
Student Value Correct Feedback
Response Answer
More, Frequent
24. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 16001
Social constructivism offers the possibility for ___ human agency compared to technological determinism.
Student Response
Value Correct Answer
Feedback
More
25. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 16003
Which of the following is not a shortcoming of the theory of cultural lag?
Student Response
Value
Correct Answer
Feedback
Sociocultural changes can often be more easily measured than technological changes
26. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 17001
Which of the following is an element of organizational structure?
Student Response
Value
Correct Answer
Feedback
A. The amount of worker specialization
B. The extent to which authority is centralized
C. The number and importance of formal rules
27. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 17005
Which individual’s organization theory deals with the degree of variability of the raw materials processed by a organization and the extent to which problem-solving
procedures can be routinized?
Student Response
Value Correct Answer
Feedback
Charles Perrow
28. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 17004
According to Joan Woodward, mass-production technologies are characterized by all of the following except ___.
Student Response
Value Correct Answer
Feedback
Broadly defined job duties
29. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 18009
The iron triangle represents ____.
Student Response
Value
Correct Answer
Feedback
Congressional committees, government agencies, and special interest groups
30. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 17003
All of the following except ___ were important variables in the studies performed by Joan Woodward.
Student Response
Value Correct Answer
Feedback
The educational requirements for first-line managers
31. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 16015
The technostructure was primarily concerned with maximizing profit.
Student Response Value Correct Answer
False
32. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 16016
The essence of professionalism is autonomy.
Student Response Value Correct Answer
True
33. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 18014
The Soviet launch of Sputnik is a good example of a focusing event.
Student Response Value Correct Answer
True
34. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 18012
The free rider concept is that some technologies that are paid for by the middle class will primarily benefit the wealthiest in a society.
Student Response Value Correct Answer
False
35. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 16010
It is likely that the ability to influence the course of technological change will be evenly distributed among the population.
Student Response Value Correct Answer
False
36. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 16014
Wielding power requires the mobilization of a constituency and the ability to create a broad base of support.
Student Response Value Correct Answer
True
37. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 17014
As the idea took hold that an organization’s structure was influenced by the technology it employed, it became apparent that one of the cherished notions of management, that there is “one best way” to organize things, is correct.
Student Response Value Correct Answer
False
38. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 18013
There is a cabinet-level Department of Technology in the United States that guides U.S. involvement in technological development.
Student Response Value Correct Answer
False
39. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 17013
Mass-production technologies had a regular flow of worker-management communication that was not filtered according to hierarchical position.
Student Response Value Correct Answer
False
40. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 16012
Value judgments involving social consequences to a decision necessarily take the expert well outside the realm of his or her expertise.
Student Response Value Correct Answer
True
41. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 16013
Max Weber explained that organizations commonly seek to expand their power by making their knowledge public.
Student Response Value Correct Answer
False
42. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 17015
A technology might be selected not because of its innate superiority, but because it meets the needs of the power holders within that organization.
Student Response Value Correct Answer
True
43. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 17020
Small organizations are often better equipped to do development work.
Student Response Value Correct Answer
False
44. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 17018
The growing use of the telephone in the early twentieth century reduced the need for traditional forms of communication.
Student Response Value Correct Answer
False
45. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 16011
The “knowledge explosion” has made all of us relative ignoramuses.
Student Response Value Correct Answer
True
46. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 17017
A new information technology, no matter how radical, is only one of many influences on a particular organization.
Student Response Value Correct Answer
True
47. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 18016
Since there is no centralized approach to the governance of technology in the United States, many key decisions are made at the middle levels of government.
Student Response Value Correct Answer
True
48. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 17019
Old fashion, face-to-face communication is usually essential for organizational tasks.
Student Response Value Correct Answer
False
49. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 18015
A technology that produces large-scale failures is more likely to generate opposition than one that produces a series of small-scale failures.
Student Response Value Correct Answer
True
50. Volti 6th Ed, Ch 17016
Managers realize that control of information has been an essential element of their authority.
Student Response Value Correct Answer
True
