PSCI 1101 Final Test with Questions Solved with 100% Correct answers
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What is the problem with people refusing to answer or lying? - Answer -If the refusers
or liars differ systematically from those who don't refuse or lie polling accuracy can
suffer
-Researchers use weighting to try to make polling representative but this doesn't solve
the issue of non-represent...
PSCI 1101 Final Test with Questions Solved
with 100% Correct answers
What is the problem with people refusing to answer or lying? - Answer -If the refusers
or liars differ systematically from those who don't refuse or lie polling accuracy can
suffer
-Researchers use weighting to try to make polling representative but this doesn't solve
the issue of non-representativeness completely
Despite the limitations of public polling have politicians come to embrace polling? -
Answer -Yes since jimmy carter every president has had an in house pollster
-George W. Bush maintained access to an estimated $1million in public research
annually
-Barack Obama had access to more than $4 million in polling services during his first 18
months in office
What do public opinion scholars think? - Answer Think that "expressed opinions reflect
underlying attitudes"
What is an attitude? - Answer -An "organized and consistent manner of thinking, feeling,
and reacting with regard to people, groups, social issues, or more generally, any event in
one's environment"
-"An attitude combines feelings, beliefs, thoughts, and predispositions to react in a
certain way"
,What do most people have in terms of political attitudes? - Answer - "Loosely structured
sets of political attitudes"
- Also differ in terms of the intensity of their beliefs
What is ideology? - Answer -Refers to "elaborate organized sets of political attitudes"
-Liberal vs. conservative is the common ideological fault line in contemporary american
politics
Do people usually label themselves as liberal or conservative? - Answer -Very few
americans are rigidly liberal or conservative
-The majority don't classify themselves as either liberal or conservative when asked to
place themselves on an ideological scale
What does partisanship mean? - Answer -Refers to Americans political affiliations
-An extremely strong predictor of attitudes
Is it easy to change an individual's partisanship affiliation? - Answer -Usually very
difficult to change
-Stable over time
What are the three ways people acquire their opinions? - Answer -Political socialization
, -Shortcuts
-Framing
What is political socialization? - Answer A process that takes place during early
childhood where people form opinions about politics (importantly this process can recur
later in life)
Why do people use shortcuts (heuristics)? - Answer -People are hesitant to acquire
political information unless the benefits of doing so exceed the costs
-People use heuristics or shortcuts to make inferences about the political world around
them
What does framing mean? - Answer -Explains how both the mass media and political
campaigns can affect people's expressed political opinions
-Interest groups and campaigns use framing to influence how people perceive an issue
What are issue publics? - Answer Groups of citizens who are more attentive to particular
areas of public policy than average citizens because such group have some special stake
in the issues.
What is an opinion leader? - Answer A citizen who is highly attentive to and involved in
politics or some related area and to whom other citizens turn for political information
and cues
Are citizens politically knowledgeable? - Answer Statements (from slide) suggest the
possibility that detailed political knowledge among citizens is low
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