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PLSC 2003 Exam 4 questions well answered to pass(10)
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PLSC 2003 Exam 4 questions wellanswered to pass(10)
Public Opinion - correct answer ✔✔citizen's attitudes towards a certain issue
Political Ideology - correct answer ✔✔cohesive set of values and beliefs that form a general philosophy
about government
Political Socialization - correct answer ✔✔process through which underlying political beliefs and values
are formed
ex: family, education, media, gender...
Polls - correct answer ✔✔interest in public opinion and what shaped it
Samples - correct answer ✔✔reflects an unbiased sample of the population
measurement error - correct answer ✔✔-poll questions generate this
-poor question format, ordering
-poor wording
-biased questions
random digit dialing - correct answer ✔✔a technique used by pollsters to place telephone calls randomly
when conducting a survey
sampling error - correct answer ✔✔-sample can be too small, tells confidence in poll
-all samples have margin of error +/- 5%
Why is public opinion important? - correct answer ✔✔-democracy requires input by people
, -our opinions greatly affect public policy, the political actors, environment
Liberal - correct answer ✔✔emphasize social and political reform and government action to promote
economic and social equality
LEFT
Conservative - correct answer ✔✔emphasize support for social and economic status-quo and limited
government action except to protect morals and traditions
RIGHT
Trends in America's ideology - correct answer ✔✔most identify conservative over liberal
overall, more moderate
Measuring public opinion - correct answer ✔✔-random sampling and probability sampling
-use samples of the population
-direction and strength of public opinion and what shaped it
Selection Bias - correct answer ✔✔sample group not chosen at random so doesn't correctly represent
the population
Measuring Public Opinion - correct answer ✔✔-want randomly selected samples that represent the
population
-interested in direction and strength of public opinion and what shaped it
Mass Media - correct answer ✔✔print and digital forms of communication that convey information to
large audiences
Framing - correct answer ✔✔media focuses attention on certain events and attaches them to a
particular meaning
Agenda Setting - correct answer ✔✔ability of the media to influence the topics on the public agenda
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