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Question
1. Public opinion is
a. the process through which individuals in a society acquire political attitudes, views, and knowledge.
b. an actual enumeration of the population conducted every ten years.
c. the distribution of the population's beliefs about politics and policy issues.
d. the study of population changes.
2. Because it would be prohibitively expensive to ask every citizen his or her opinion on a whole range of issues, polls rely on what is called a(n) ________ of the population.
a. demographic
b. slice
c. census
d. sample
3. Random sampling is considered
a. a tangent
b. highly unreliable, but the cheapest way to measure public opinion.
c. an unsophisticated way of measuring public opinion, but one that sometimes yields accurate results.
d. the key to the accuracy of opinion polls, because people should get equal probability of being selected.
4. Whereas liberals tend to favor ____________, conservatives tend to favor ___________.
a. prayer in schools; affirmative action
b. lower government spending; more government spending for the poor and other social services
c. free markets; less government regulation of the economy
d. less military spending; more military spending
5. Which are the major functions of the media?
a. Making a profit
b. Reporting the news
c. Identifying public problems- setting the agenda
d. All responses are correct
6. Which of the following are considered by pollsters to be demographic influences on voting behavior?
a. Right brain or Left brain mental proclivity
b. Education, Economic Status, Religious Influence, Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Geography and Age
c. the U.S. census planning process
d. the census and reapportionment
7. According to the lecture, the electoral college is unfair because:
a. the constitution favors wealthy fat cats
b. it allows 538 electors to decide who becomes president of the united States
c. Washington DC has 4 votes
d. it is the popular vote
8. The iron triangle refers to the policy-making arrangement between the following institutions:
a. 90,000 units of government
b. State, local, and national government
c. a trinity
d. Congress, Federal bureaucracy and Interest Groups
9. A sample refers to a small proportion of people chosen to represent the whole population.
True
False
10. Demography refers to
the U.S. census planning process.
he science of democracy.
the science of population changes.
constitutional rules governing reapportionment of Congress.
11. ________ is the distribution of the population's beliefs about politics and policy issues.
Political socialization
Political something something
Public opinion
Direct mail
12. According to lecture, republicans favor_____, while democrats favor____________
crushed ice; ice cubes
sending German Shepherds back to Germany, help in the cause to outlaw Pit Bulls
free-market (business) solutions, government solutions to social problems
old people with nice houses, old people with nice cars
13. Political polarization can be defined as
agreement
consensus
divisive opinion or opposite opinion
when political parties favor each other
14. The process through which an individual acquires his or her particular political orientations, and beliefs, including his or her knowledge, feelings, and evaluations regarding his or her political world is known as
political socialization.
political doctorine
Political orientation
political ideology
15. Which of the following statements about political socialization is FALSE?
As people become more socialized with age, their political orientations growweaker.
As people become more socialized with age, their political orientations growstronger
Governments aim their socialization efforts primarily at the young
Americans obtain most of their political socialization from their families and theirteachers.
16. Scientific public opinion polling first began in 1932 by
Elmer Fud
the Democratic Party
Nogozi, the student in Poli Sci 101who sits near the door and participates daily.
Dr. George Gallup.
17. In public opinion polling, a sample as small as about ________ people can faithfully
represent the "universe" of Americans.
100
1,500
50,000
9,923
18. The three categories of interest groups are:
the pursued, the pursing and the tired
democrat, republican, and communist
happy like a room without a roof, the clap along, and the come-on get happys
Public or ideological, Economic and Governmental
19. A political ideology is
a coherent set of values and beliefs about public policy, which gives meaning to political events
the set of courses that a political science student must complete to attain a degree
a process through which an individual acquires his or her political skills.
a relatively small proportion of people who are chosen as representative of thewhole.
20. The _________ refers to the notion that Americans share common values that reflect an assimilated homogenous national identity
melting pot
Mosaic
salad bowl
population reference groups
21. The _________ refers to the notion that even though American share common cultural values, they maintain their individual heterogeneous cultural identity.
salad bowl and mosaic
immigrant population
Melting pot
minority-majority
22. In 1934, Congress created the ______________ to regulate the use of the media airwaves
Federal Trade Commission
Equal Opportunity Commission
net neutrality
Federal Communications Commission
23. Increasing public attention to specific problems is a core feature of the media's ______ power.
agenda-setting
mind control
brain washing
policy power
24. People who invest their political capital in an issue are called
lobbyists.
agenda setters
policy entrepreneurs
media conglomerates
25. Media programming on cable TV or the Internet that is focused on a particular interest and aimed at a particular audience is called
narrowcasting
chain broadcasting
media conglomeration
high-tech politics