PLSC 001 Final Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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PLSC 001 Final Actual Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
What is public opinion and how is it gathered/measured? - CORRECT ANSWER- Public
opinion is the opinions held by private sectors persons which government finds it prudent to
heed.
It is gathered through scientific polling (random samp...
PLSC 001 Final Actual Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
What is public opinion and how is it gathered/measured? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Public
opinion is the opinions held by private sectors persons which government finds it prudent to
heed.
It is gathered through scientific polling (random sample) done by telephone, interviews, and
the internet.
How do we interpret poll results? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- We care about what many
polls say, not just one
They need context because people can lie
What are polls measuring? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Attitude and aggregate beliefs
How and when do people learn about politics? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Political
socialization, it happens early in life when people develop their core values
Distinguish between an attitude and an aggregate belief - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An
attitude is something a private person has, what they personally think
An aggregate belief: sum of many attitudes, what the country thinks
What are the traits of an uninformed voter? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- People use the
information they have to have opinions.
Knowing about big events and discussions but not specifics. Their opinions are unstable and
can come from the top of their head
How does public opinion vary among key demographic groups? (Note: last couple slides of
this lecture). - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Younger people are more liberal (not democratic)
Women and men have a lot of the same beliefs
Women seem to be more liberal and men more conservative
Asian Americans are more conservative than hispanics Lower SES status more likely to
support welfare programs
,Distinguish between core issues, attitudes, partisanship, and ideologies - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Core issues: what you think is right/wrong, your personal code of ethics
Attitudes: manner of thinking and feeling about something, personal to you
Partisanship: attachment to one of the political parties
Ideologies: comprehensive, integrated, set of views about government and politics.
Liberal/conservative
What factors explain how political opinions are formed? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Political socialization, ideology, group membership, issue publics, opinion leaders, polling
and media affects, genetics, information, partisanship
What is political socialization? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Process by which individuals
form their political beliefs and values.
Happens early in life
People develop their core values
It is derived from practical experience of growing up and living in a social and practical
world
What is ideology? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Comprehensive, integrated, set of beliefs
about government and politics
Liberal/conservative
What is group membership? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- People identify with people like
themselves
Attitudes reflect shared experiences, knowledge and beliefs
What is genetics? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Research suggests that some political
preferences can be inherited
What is information? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- People use the relevant information they
have to form political attitudes
, Why do most people lack political information? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- it is not
practical for most people to be informed, or they just don't care
When will people learn about politics? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- If they have Capacity,
interest, opportunity
What is partisanship? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Attachment to one of the political parties
It is a heuristic/cognitive shortcut
It is the single greatest impact on public opinion
What are opinion leaders? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A individual citizen who is highly
attentive and involved in politics, and whom other citizens turn to for political information
What are issue publics? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Groups of citizens who are more
attentive to particular policy areas than average person because they have some special stake
in the issue
Example: the Sierra Club
Poll/Media affects (framing/priming) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Framing: providing a
context that affects the criteria citizens use to evaluate candidates, campaigns, and political
issue
Priming: the news media's influence on how citizens make political judgements, through
emphasis on a particular issue
What is cognitive dissonance? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 2 ideas running counter to each
other and you find a way to be okay with them in your head
What is ambivalence and how do voters make decisions in this state? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- When you have equal amounts of information pulling you in opposite
directions
Many respond off the top of their head- the thing they heard last
Are Americans typically liberal or conservative in regards to policy and principal? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Policy programs: more liberal
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