Informed Consent Statement

Informed Consent Statement

Study on Responses to Media Content

Thank you for taking the time to participate in this study. This is the second of two questionnaires that you have been asked to complete over the course of the semester. A team of faculty and students is studying ways in which people respond to various types of media content. Attached you will find a questionnaire that will ask you about some of your communication behaviors, attitudes, and social habits, and will ask you to report on a variety of preferences toward potentially humorous media content and situations.

Please answer all questions to the best of your ability. You are not being judged in any way by your answers; and as this survey is confidential (indeed, your name will not be attached to the questionnaire), please be as truthful and honest as possible. Your participation is voluntary, and you may choose not to participate. Please read the instructions at the beginning of each section before answering. There are no foreseeable risks in participating in this survey. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Prof. Kim Neuendorf at (216) 687-3994.

Thank you.

If you have any questions about your rights as a research subject, you can contact Cleveland State University's Review Board at (216) 687-3630.

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Up in Barney’s Room

Character key: Participant #:______

Barney Fife: Deputy, assists Sheriff Andy, skinny, nervous

Andy Taylor: Sheriff of Mayberry, father of Opie, Barney’s boss

Mrs. Mendelbright: Older woman, Barney’s landlady

Mr. Fields: Older man who moves into Mrs. Mendelbright’s boarding house after Barney moved out

Thelma Lou: Barney’s girlfriend

For questions H1 through H11, please answer the question to the best of your ability.

H1. What does Barney hide under his clothes?

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H2. What were some of the rules in Mrs. Mendelbright’s home?

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H3. What are the three reasons that Barney doesn’t trust Mr. Fields?

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H4. How much does Barney pay to live in Mrs. Mendelbright’s house?

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H5. What does Barney put on the wall in both rooms he lives in?

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H6. What are Barney and Thelma Lou doing when the lights come on?

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H7. What does Barney have on his face when the lights come on?

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H8. When Barney is getting ready to cook dinner for Thelma Lou, what does he pull out and put on the table?

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H9. What movie star do Andy and Opie discuss?

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H10. How much money does Barney’s landlady withdraw from the bank?

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H11. Was there a laugh track used in the episode?

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I1. How much did you enjoy the episode?

NOT AT ALL A GREAT DEAL

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I2. How often did you have the sensation that people you saw/heard in the episode could also see/hear you?

NEVER ALWAYS

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I3. To what extent did you feel you could interact with the person or people you saw/heard in the episode?

NONE VERY MUCH

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I4. How much did it seem as if you and the people you saw/heard in the episode both left the places where you were and went to a new place?

NOT AT ALL VERY MUCH

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I5. How much did it seem as if you and the people you saw/heard in the episode were together in the same place?

NOT AT ALL VERY MUCH

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I6. How often did it feel as if someone you saw/heard in the episode was talking directly to you?

NEVER ALWAYS

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

I7. How often did you want to or did you make eye-contact with someone you saw/heard in the episode?

NEVER ALWAYS

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

I8. Seeing and hearing a person through a medium constitutes an interaction with him or her. How much control over the interaction with the person or people you saw/heard in the episode did you feel you had?

NONE VERY MUCH

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I9. During the episode how well were you able to observe the facial expressions of the people you saw in the episode?

NOT WELL VERY WELL

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I10. During the episode how well were you able to observe the changes in tone of voice of the people you saw/heard?

NOT WELL VERY WELL

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I11. During the episode how well were you able to observe the style of dress of the people you saw?

NOT WELL VERY WELL

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I12. During the episode how well were you able to observe the body language of the people you saw?

NOT WELL VERY WELL

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I13. How often did you make a sound out loud (e.g., laugh or speak) in response to someone you saw/heard in the episode?

NEVER ALWAYS

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

I14. How often did you smile in response to someone you saw/heard in the episode?

NEVER ALWAYS

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

I15. How often did you want to or did you speak to a person you saw/heard in the episode?

NEVER ALWAYS

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I16. To what extent did you feel mentally immersed in the experience?

NOT AT ALL VERY MUCH

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I17. How involving was the experience?

NOT AT ALL VERY MUCH

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I18. How completely were your senses engaged?

NOT AT ALL VERY MUCH

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I19. To what extent did you experience a sensation of reality?

NOT AT ALL VERY MUCH

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I20. How relaxing or exciting was the experience?

VERY RELAXING VERY EXCITING 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

I21. How engaging was the story?

NOT AT ALL VERY MUCH

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I22. When the episode ended, I felt like I came back to the “real world” after a journey.

STRONGLY DISAGREE STRONGLY AGREE

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I23. The television came to me and created a new world for me, and that world suddenly disappeared when the episode ended.

STRONGLY DISAGREE STRONGLY AGREE

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I24. During the episode, I felt I was in the world the television created.

NEVER ALWAYS

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I25. During the episode, I never forgot that I was in the middle of an experiment.

STRONGLY DISAGREE STRONGLY AGREE

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I26. During the episode, my body was in the room, but my mind was inside the world created by television.

NEVER ALWAYS

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I27. During the episode, the television-generated world was more real or present for me than the “real world.”

NEVER ALWAYS

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I28. The television-generated world seemed to be only “something I saw” rather than “somewhere I visited.”

NEVER ALWAYS

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I29. During the episode, my mind was in the room, not in the world created by television.

NEVER ALWAYS

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I30. During the episode, I felt like I was back in the 1960s.

STRONGLY DISAGREE STRONGLY AGREE

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I31. I feel that I have gained a better understanding of what life in a small Southern town must have been like in the 1960s.

STRONGLY DISAGREE STRONGLY AGREE

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I32. I felt almost as though I was looking back in time through a window while watching the episode.

STRONGLY DISAGREE STRONGLY AGREE

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J1. How funny was the episode overall?