Psci 21 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

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PSCI 21 Exam Questions with Correct Answers The sun is plotted near the middle of the HR diagram - Answer-True Suppose a star has an absolute magnitude of 2.47 and an apparent magnitude of 7.47 how far away is the star in parsecs - Answer-100 I need typical HR diagram 90% of the stars are - Answer-Main sequence In about 5 billion years of sun will - Answer-Turn into a red giant The sun has an absolute magnitude of 4.86. And the Star Sirius has an absolute magnitude of 1.42. Determin...

PSCI 210 Midterm 2 Questions with Correct Answers Equal protection of the laws - Answer-The landmark phrase in the Fourteenth Amendment that requires equal treatment for all citizens. Reconstruction - Answer-The failed effort, pursued by Northerners and Southerners, to rebuild the South and establish racial equality after the Civil War. literacy test - Answer-A requirement that voters be literate; in reality, a way to restrict black suffrage Jim Crow - Answer-System of racial segregati...

PSCI 210 Exam 3 Review Questions and Answers All Correct Civil service pay scales have inched up since: a. 2001 b. 2008 c. 1989 d. 2010 - Answer-d. 2010 Bureaucracies exist: a. in both the public and private sector b. at the federal level c. in Europe, for the most part d. only in government - Answer-a. in both the public and private sector Debates over how laws will work take place: a. in private meetings at the White House b. among elected officials in committee meetings c. d...

PSCI 210 Exam 3 Questions with Correct Answers Independent Regulatory Agencies - Answer-emerged to regulate business meant to be independent of political influence (board of the federal reserve) there are 16 IRC's all of which have the authority to issue regulations and enforce judicial powers in one agency Federal Reserve - Answer-The central banking system in the United States which consists of the twelve regional banks, the Federal Reserve Board, and the Federal Open Market Committ...

PSCI 210 FINAL TEST WITH CORRECT ANSWERS NEW UPDATE Thinking with Different people and Rational Thinking - Answer-Understanding the different experiences of the same events with different people. For example, a mother might not like the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once for its nonsensical story while their daughter would enjoy the movie for its underlying themes. Analytical thinking -being smart- isn't enough - Answer-It takes a certain "character" and a emotional capacity to th...

PSCI 210 Midterm 1 Questions with Correct Answers Classical Liberalism - Answer-A term given to the philosophy of John Locke and other 17th and 18th century advocates of the protection of individual rights and liberties by limiting government power State of Nature (Hobbes) - Answer-In order for people to accept entering civil society and the social, must convince them to trade liberties for security. Needed government to protect one's rights, such as life and property Republicanism - Ans...

PSCI 210.01 Exam 1 Study Guide Questions with Correct Answers Social Contract - Answer-Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Groups should work together for social benefits, (i.e. Sacrificing individual freedoms for state protections, etc) Political Culture - Answer-A patterned and sustained way of thinking about how political and economic life ought to be carried out. Federalism - Answer-Government authority shared by national and local governments. Political Ideology ...

PSCI 210 Exam 1 Questions with Correct Answers Establishment Clause - Answer-Clause in the First Amendment that says the government may not establish an official religion. Miller v California - Answer-A first amendment case. The Court defined obscenity. To be obscene, the work, taken as a whole, must be judged by "the average person applying contemporary community standards" to appeal to the "prurient interest" or to depict "in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defin...

The Great Society - Answer 1960s; President Lyndon B. Johnson; -Set of domestic programs proposed by Johnson, - creation of spending programs that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, and transportation focus on an increase in gov't and an increase in services (medicare + medicaid) Regan's Revolution - Answer 1980s - ideology of not wanting to go to the government for everything roll back power of federal gov't due to "inefficiency" (did not work)