Technology In Action To change the world.docx

Technology In Action Using Technology to Change the World 1) Being ________ means being familiar enough with computers that you understand their capabilities and limitations. A) computer savvy B) technology literate C) computer literate D) computer competent Answer: C Section Ref: Technology at Home 2) Unwanted or junk e-mail is called ________. A) spam B) spyware C) adware D) software Answer: A Section Ref: Technology at Home 3) ________ diseases account for about 1/5 of all deaths worldwide, and technology is used to increase the pace of vaccine production to decrease this death rate. A) Non-infectious B) Degenerative C) Infectious D) Non-degenerative Answer: C Section Ref: Technology on the World Stage 4) ________ is a field of study focused on information handling and retrieval of information automatically. A) Computer forensics B) Database mining C) RFID D) Information technology Answer: D Section Ref: Technology at Home 5) The process of searching huge amounts of data with the hope of finding a pattern is called ________. A) data mining B) data searching C) data warehousing D) data retrieval Answer: A Section Ref: Technology at Home 6) ________ is a wearable device that hangs around your neck and consists of a camera, a projector, and a mirror that can communicate with the Internet over wireless Bluetooth technology. A) FastSCAN B) Data mining C) Emotional-social prosthesis (ESP) D) SixthSense Answer: D Section Ref: Digging Deeper: Making Reality Even More Real 7) All of the following factors lead to better personal satisfaction, EXCEPT ________. A) consumption B) purpose C) autonomy D) mastery Answer: A Section Ref: Technology and Our Society 8) Autonomy is defined as ________. A) working for something larger. B) feeling confident and excited about learning new skills. C) working without continual direction and control. D) repressing motivated behavior. Answer: C Section Ref: Technology and Our Society 9) Using the Internet to get small donations from many people to start a business is called ________. A) kickstarting B) crowdfunding C) crowdsourcing D) collaborating Answer: B Section Ref: Technology and Our Society 10) The technology called QR codes stands for ________. A) quick response B) quiet reader C) quiet response D) quick reaction Answer: A Section Ref: Technology and Our Society 11) The goal of ________ is to provide technological solutions to physical problems, such as providing sight to the blind. A) 3D animations B) computer forensics C) biomedical chip research D) RFID technology Answer: C Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 12) One potential application of ________ is to provide sight to the blind. A) RFID tags B) patient simulators C) biomedical chip implants D) VeriChips Answer: C Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 13) All of the following are examples of being computer literate, EXCEPT ________. A) knowing how to avoid hackers and viruses B) knowing how to protect your privacy C) knowing how to use the Web efficiently D) knowing only how to use your computer for e-mails Answer: D Section Ref: Technology at Home 14) ________ computing relates to emotion or deliberately tries to influence emotion. A) Affective B) Personal C) Psychological D) Emotional Answer: A Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 15) Which of the following is an example of data mining? A) An Excel spreadsheet listing all employees and their annual salaries in a random order B) Amazon providing you with a list of books you might enjoy C) Raw data from questionnaires given at the mall D) A printout of all sales taken from the register at the end of the day Answer: B Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 16) The emotional-social prosthesis (ESP) device, developed by a group at the MIT Media Lab, is targeted at helping people who have ________. A) paralysis B) diabetes C) autism D) brain damage Answer: C Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 17) The difference between people with access to computers and the Internet and those without this access is known as the ________. A) Web divide B) Internet divide C) digital divide D) broadband divide Answer: C Section Ref: Ethics in IT: The Digital Divide and the Mobile Bridge 18) Which of the following software can best be used to help create digital art? A) Microsoft Excel B) Microsoft Word C) Adobe Acrobat D) Adobe Illustrator Answer: D Section Ref: Technology and Our Society 19) Faculty at universities often use course management software such as ________ to make information available to students. A) Moodle B) Blueboard C) Noodle D) Whiteboard Answer: A Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 20) ________ is the gathering together of groups of people using online tools to connect and exchange ideas. A) Affective computing B) Social networking C) Information technology D) Collaborative consumption Answer: B Section Ref: Technology on the World Stage 21) The crisis-mapping tool ________ can collect information to make instantly and publicly available for use in emergencies. A) Marahabaa B) Ushahidi C) data mining D) The Witness Project Answer: B Section Ref: Technology on the World Stage 22) The Witness Project uses the power of video and a grassroots movement to advocate for ________. A) computer literacy B) social networking C) human rights D) responsible citizenship Answer: C Section Ref: Technology on the World Stage 23) The ________ is a strategic plan to focus on the young, talented, mathematical minds of Africa. A) Next Einstein Initiative B) Future Civic Media C) Childhood Walk D) National Research Council Answer: A Section Ref: Technology on the World Stage 24) Analyzing computer systems to gather potential legal evidence is ________. A) computer detectives B) computer forensics C) forensics detectives D) computer enforcement Answer: B Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 25) An identification chip that is smaller than a period is known as ________. A) SixthSense B) VeriMed C) m-chip D) Bio-chip Answer: C Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 26) A popular Voice over Internet protocol service is ________. A) Tablet B) Skype C) Social Network D) Mobile bridge Answer: B Section Ref: Try This 27) The ESP system targeted at helping with autism stands for ________. A) extra sensory perception B) emotional-stabilizing program C) emotional-social prosthesis D) emotional-social program Answer: C Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 28) Joining together as a group to use a specific product more efficiently is called ________. A) affective computing B) social networking C) creative surplus D) collaborative consumption Answer: D Section Ref: Technology and Our Society 29) People who are ________ make the Internet a powerful research tool and know how to find the information that they want effectively. A) computer productive B) computer literate C) technologically informed D) computer efficient Answer: B Section Ref: Technology at Home 30) Affective computing is ________. A) performing calculations faster than humans B) being able to recognize human fingerprints C) speaking human language D) responding to human emotions Answer: D Section Ref: Technology and Our Society 31) At the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, researchers use a desktop printer to create human organs. Answer: TRUE Section Ref: How Cool Is This? 32) You cannot be computer literate unless you have knowledge of higher level computer skills, such as computer programming. Answer: FALSE Section Ref: Technology at Home 33) Cognitive surplus is the combination of leisure time and creativity tools. Answer: TRUE Section Ref: Technology and Our Society 34) Data mining is the process of searching huge amounts of data with the hope of finding a pattern. Answer: TRUE Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 35) Crowdfunding is asking for large donations from a few people. Answer: FALSE Section Ref: Technology and Our Society 36) Hardware refers to the programs that give commands to the computer. Answer: FALSE Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 37) When a job is sent to other countries, like many programming jobs have been, it is said to have been data mined. Answer: FALSE Section Ref: Technology and Our Society 38) Computer forensics analyzes computer systems in gathering potential legal evidence. Answer: TRUE Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 39) Hospitals use nonimplant versions of identity chips on the wristbands of all patients. Answer: FALSE Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 40) Affective computing is a field of study that attempts to produce machines that understand and can respond to human emotion. Answer: TRUE Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 41) ZipCar is an example of ownership. Answer: FALSE Section Ref: Technology and Our Society 42) A virus is electronic junk mail. Answer: FALSE Section Ref: Technology at Home 43) Affective computing is a field of study focused on managing and processing information and the automatic retrieval of information. Answer: FALSE Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 44) Computer literacy means that you are an expert on computer repair. Answer: FALSE Section Ref: Technology at Home 45) If you draw a watch-sized circle on your wrist, SixthSense will display an analog watch face on your arm. Answer: TRUE Section Ref: Digging Deeper: Making Reality Even More Real 46) Dancers can be wired with light electronic sensors so that their movements can be digitized for computer analysis. Answer: TRUE Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 47) Mastery of software programs, such as Adobe Illustrator and Corel Painter, is essential to creating digital art. Answer: TRUE Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 48) Information technology is the study of managing and processing information, and the automatic retrieval of information. Answer: TRUE Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 49) Multimedia tours using mobile devices and wireless technology are not common in museums and galleries at this time. Answer: FALSE Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 50) Examples of information technology careers are telecommunication and software deployment. Answer: TRUE Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 51) VeriMed can be used to keep Alzheimer patients safe. Answer: TRUE Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 52) The National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime database enables detectives to analyze information about similarities between crimes. Answer: TRUE Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 53) Data mining is the process of searching large datasets to find patterns. Answer: TRUE Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 54) Computer programs can add muscles, fat, and skin to recovered human skulls to help identify the victim. Answer: TRUE Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 55) Any flat surface can become an input device using SixthSense. Answer: TRUE Section Ref: Digging Deeper: Making Reality Even More Real 56) If you are a design student, there is no reason for you to know how to use a computer. Answer: FALSE Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 57) Autonomy is the feeling of confidence and excitement from seeing your own skills progress. Answer: FALSE Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 58) Some art museums use technology to let you download informational podcasts to listen to while touring the exhibits. Answer: TRUE Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 59) Mastery is the simple understanding that you are working for something larger than yourself. Answer: FALSE Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 60) Educators do not need to be computer literate. Answer: FALSE Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 61) Being ________ means being familiar enough with computers to understand their capabilities and limitations and knowing how to use them. Answer: computer literate Section Ref: Technology at Home 62) The gap between Internet access and technical tools around the world is known as the ________. Answer: digital divide Section Ref: Technology on the World Stage 63) ________ is a crisis-mapping tool that was originally developed as a response to a request from Kenya. Answer: Ushahidi Section Ref: Technology on the World Stage 64) A process known as ________ tracks trends and allows retailers to respond to consumer buying patterns. Answer: data mining Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 65) Using software such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Corel Painter allows artists to create ________ art. Answer: digital Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 66) ________ is the combination of leisure time and tools to be creative. Answer: Cognitive surplus Section Ref: Technology and Our Society 67) ________ is the application of computer systems and techniques in the gathering of legal evidence. Answer: Computer forensics Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 68) ________ is the use of apps to obtain opinions on products from other people. Answer: Crowdsourcing Section Ref: Technology and Our Society 69) ________ computing relates to emotion or deliberately tries to influence emotion. Answer: Affective Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 70) Sharing products rather than owning them individually is known as ________. Answer: collaborative consumption Section Ref: Technology and Our Society 71) On a NASA Web site, you can play a game called ________ that simulates life on a space settlement. Answer: Moonbase Alpha Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 72) ________ is the field of study focused on managing, processing, and retrieving information. Answer: Information technology Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 73) ________ is a wearable system that isolates movements and facial expressions of people to help determine their mood and intention. Answer: ESP, Emotional-social prosthesis, emotional-social prosthesis Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 74) An example of ________ is using register terminals to determine consumer buying patterns. Answer: data mining Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 75) On a NASA Web site, ________ lets you pretend you have a scanning electron microscope. Answer: Virtual Lab Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 76) An investment banker from Boston started a nonprofit technological tool for education called the ________. Answer: Khan Academy Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 77) A wearable device consisting of a camera, a projector, and a mirror that communicates with the Internet wirelessly through your cell phone is called ________. Answer: SixthSense Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 78) The ________ allows an interactive tour through several museums from your own classroom. Answer: Art Project Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 79) ________ is a personal identification chip that is about the size of a grain of rice and implanted under the skin. Answer: VeriMed Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 80) ________ computing tries to influence emotions. Answer: Affective Section Ref: Technology and Your Career 81) Social networking tools are providing a level of ________ connection and ________ distribution of information that is reshaping the world. Answer: instant, instant Section Ref: Technology on the World Stage 82) Social media played a big role in the transfer of power in ________ in 2011. Answer: Egypt Section Ref: Technology on the World Stage 83) A free crisis-mapping tool called ________ makes information instantly available to anyone in the world. Answer: Ushahidi Section Ref: Technology on the World Stage 84) The ________ hopes to stop human rights abuses throughout the world. Answer: Witness Project Section Ref: Technology on the World Stage 85) The danger of the ________ is that it prevents us from using all of the minds on the planet to solve the problems of the planet. Answer: digital divide Section Ref: Technology on the World Stage 86) Traditional chalkboards gave way to whiteboards, which have given way to ________. Answer: smartboards, Smartboards Section Ref: Technology on the World Stage 87) The ________ lets users create a single screen from laptops, tablets, smartphones, or anything else with a Web browser. Answer: Junkyard Jumbotron Section Ref: Technology on the World Stage 88) Less familiarity with the ________ can lead to less civic engagement and a lower level of active, engaged citizenship. Answer: Internet Section Ref: Ethics in IT: The Digital Divide and the Mobile Bridge 89) Computer tasks and skills that could lead to economic advancement, like filling out job applications or running a business, are not yet handled easily on ________. Answer: mobile devices Section Ref: Ethics in IT: The Digital Divide and the Mobile Bridge 90) The world's population combined has an estimated ________ hours a year of free time. Answer: one trillion Section Ref: Technology and Our Society 91) Our understanding of ________ can play a role in our use of technology to impact society. Answer: human motivation Section Ref: Technology and Our Society 92) Web 2.0 has fostered a shift from only consuming to having the ability to ________ and collaborate on projects. Answer: volunteer Section Ref: Technology and Our Society 93) The ________ shows the physical location of each voice in the Virtual Choir. Answer: Virtual Choir Map Section Ref: Technology and Our Society 94) QR tags are used widely in retail, because studies show ________ percent of shoppers go to the Internet on their cell phone before a purchase. Answer: 82 Section Ref: Technology and Our Society 95) Match the following fields to the related computer technology: I. medicine II. business III. law enforcement IV. education V. archaeology A. Internet research and virtual tours B. digital re-creation of ruins C. bioengineering and patient simulators D. computer forensics E. data mining Answer: C, E, D, A, B Section Ref: Multiple locations in the chapter 96) Match the following terms to their meanings: I. computer forensics II. computer literacy III. information technology IV. affective computing A. computing relating to emotion B. using computer systems to gather legal evidence C. understanding the capabilities and limitations of computers D. the handling and retrieval of information Answer: B, C, D, A Section Ref: Multiple locations in the chapter 97) Match the following fields to the related computer technology: I. shipping II. video gaming III. education IV. legal system A. uses Bluetooth technology B. uses computer forensics animations C. uses course management software such as Moodle D. uses software animation tools Answer: A, D, C, B Section Ref: Multiple locations in the chapter 98) Match the following terms to their meanings: I. smartphone II. µ-chip III. RFID IV. VeriChip A. biomedical implant placed under the skin used for identification B. identification tag used to track animals C. device that enables the user to carry digital information D. identity chip small enough to be ingested without a person's knowledge Answer: C, D, B, A Section Ref: Multiple locations in the chapter