Chapter 8 Post Test

A  Harry Truman

B  Warren Harding

C  Franklin D. Roosevelt

D  John F. Kennedy

A  Agents of socialization are mostly ineffective; individuals largely determine their basic political beliefs on their own, and these agents exert almost no influence on a person.

B  Agents of socialization are common and include a wide range of influences, from family to school; their impact on a person’s beliefs is important but not all-powerful.

C  Agents of socialization are rare; they consist of only a handful of influential people a person might encounter throughout their life.

D  Agents of socialization are overwhelmingly powerful and more or less fully explain how a person develops their own basic political beliefs.

A  The general process of introducing a person into a political culture

B  Social institutions, like family and school, that shape an individual’s basic political beliefs and values

C  The public forums in which beliefs and ideas are exchanged and compete for influence

D  An influencer or politician who seeks to promote a socialist ideology

A  conservative ideology

B  agents of socialization

C  group self-interest

D  inability of groups to translate preferences into policy

A  the analysis of events broadcast by reporters during the evening news.

B  the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions.

C  the president’s collected speeches and writings during his or her term in office.

D  beliefs and attitudes toward different issues, events, and people.

A  push polling

B  the bandwagon effect

C  social desirability bias

D  data mining

A  A corporation conducts a survey of 100,000 individuals using simple random sampling.

B  All of the answer choices are correct.

C  A political campaign uses Google Search data to determine if the public supports repealing the death penalty.

D  A media organization asks respondents loaded questions to produce a particular response that best matches the organization’s political ideology.

A  are paid for by large corporations.

B  are so large and complex that they require advanced analytics, rather than traditional methods, to reveal insights on a massive scale.

C  measure attributes of groups, organizations, or nations rather than attributes of single individuals.

D  have a major impact on policy making.

A  bandwagon poll.

B  saliency illusion.

C  push poll.

D  nonresponse bias.

A  coattail

B  Hawthorne

C  bandwagon

D  social desirability

A  too large sample sizes.

B  push polling.

C  the increased use of cell phones.

D  poorly worded questions.

A  the system of repeatedly calling people in the sampling frame until they respond to the survey.

B  asking loaded questions in order to subtly shape the respondent’s opinion.

C  a poll to push politicians into adopting policy proposals they would not otherwise adopt.

D  polling services attempting to sell their polling data to major news media organizations at higher prices during election seasons.

A  1,000

B  1,500

C  250

D  500

A  simple random

B  equal opportunity

C  stratified

D  quota

A  the majority of affluent and educated citizens personally know an elected official.

B  their opinions are of higher quality than those of less affluent and less educated citizens.

C  the emoluments clause of the Constitution compels elected officials to give preferential treatment to citizens with a college degree.

D  they vote at higher rates, and they are more likely to contribute money to political campaigns.

A  more affluent and more educated citizens have a disproportionate influence over politics and public policy decisions.

B  less affluent and less educated citizens have a disproportionate influence over politics and public policy decisions.

C  nonvoters have a disproportionate influence over politics and public policy decisions.

D  every citizen has an equally strong influence over politics and public policy decisions.

A  overwhelmingly supportive of the war, with almost 100% of Americans endorsing the Bush administration’s policy.

B  overwhelmingly opposed to the war, with only 5% of Americans endorsing the Bush administration’s policy.

C  strongly supportive of the war, with 70% of Americans endorsing the Bush administration’s policy.

D  deeply divided on the war, with 50% of Americans endorsing and 50% of Americans opposing the Bush administration’s policy.

A  Republicans, 72% of whom do not want stricter gun laws

B  Democrats, 80% of whom do not want strict gun laws

C  Democrats, 80% of whom want stricter gun laws

D  Independents, 57% of whom say gun laws should be more strict

A  Government officials are legally prohibited from promoting ideas in the marketplace of ideas.

B  The British created the marketplace of ideas in the seventeenth century.

C  Exposure to the marketplace of ideas rarely leads people to change their minds about political issues.

D  Private groups and the news media play important roles in shaping opinions in the marketplace of ideas.

A  Citizens with high levels of knowledge are generally better able to evaluate new information to determine its relevancy to their beliefs.

B  Citizens with low levels of knowledge are generally better able to evaluate new information and determine its relevancy to their beliefs.

C  Political knowledge is fairly high in America.

D  Politically knowledgeable citizens are more likely to consider themselves independent and not have a liberal or conservative ideology.

A  their commitment to privacy makes them deeply unwilling to reveal to public opinion pollsters how much they actually know about politics.

B  they spend a great deal of time each day consuming nonpolitical content on television.

C  by the time they actually voice an opinion on an issue, they are likely to have forgotten much of the information that helped them arrive at their opinion.

D  they spend a great deal of time each day consuming nonpolitical content on the internet.

A  receive, accept, and sample.

B  develop, spread, and react.

C  listen, consider, and adapt.

D  reject, reconsider, and accept.

A  fact that group memberships can fully explain all of an individual’s political views.

B  fact that group memberships never fully explain all of an individual’s political views.

C  power of the bandwagon effect.

D  negative consequences of the power of the mass media.

A  Republican; Democrats

B  Democratic; Socialists

C  Democratic; Republicans

D  Socialist; Democrats

A  Democratic

B  Republican

C  Libertarian

D  conservative

A  linked fate.

B  symbolic racism.

C  reverse racism.

D  intergroup commonality.

A  libertarian.

B  communist.

C  socialist.

D  anarchist.

A  conservatives; libertarians

B  conservatives; liberals

C  libertarians; conservatives

D  liberals; conservatives

A  Justice

B  Liberty

C  Family

D  Equality

A  socialism.

B  liberty.

C  anarchy.

D  democracy.

A  There is no division of opinion among conservatives because almost all conservatives strongly oppose immigration.

B  There is a division of opinion among conservatives, with pro-business conservatives opposing immigration and social conservatives strongly supporting immigration to the United States.

C  There is a division of opinion among conservatives, with pro-business conservatives accepting immigration and social conservatives strongly opposing immigration to the United States.

D  There is no division of opinion among conservatives because almost all conservatives accept immigration.

A  has both a liberal and conservative ideology.

B  has a conservative ideology.

C  is ideologically moderate.

D  has a liberal ideology.

A  argues governments are inherently repressive and should be abolished entirely.

B  emphasizes freedom and voluntary association with small government.

C  argues for the need to place strict limitations on voting rights and civil liberties.

D  argues a single ruler should have total control over every aspect of people’s lives.

A  roughly the same in the United States as most other countries in the world.

B  lower in the United States than in most other countries in the world.

C  higher in the United States than in most other countries in the world.

D  nearly nonexistent in the United States.

A  held for a short term, while attitudes are held for a long term.

B  liberal, while attitudes are conservative.

C  conservative, while attitudes are liberal.

D  basic principles, while attitudes are specific preferences.

A  illusion of saliency.

B  “bounce” effect.

C  bellwether effect.

D  bandwagon effect.

A  the impression conveyed by polls that something is important to the public when actually it is not

B  the strong desire that people have to express their opinions to survey researchers

C  the fact that respondents report what they think the interviewer wishes to hear or whatever they think is socially acceptable rather than what they actually believe

D  the bias in surveys that comes from the failure of pollsters to interview respondents from lower socioeconomic backgrounds

A  declining steadily and now average less than 10%.

B  increasing steadily and now average 75%.

C  increasing steadily and now average 95%.

D  declining steadily and now average only 67%.

A  sample.

B  quota.

C  validity quotient.

D  reliability quotient.

A  Public opinion always influences government policy because lawmakers are legally bound to enact the majority’s preferences.

B  The relationship between government policy and public opinion is dynamic, wherein government policy responds to public opinion but public opinion also shifts based on new government policies.

C  Public opinion rarely influences government policy; because elections are spaced out far enough, the vast majority of lawmakers do not need to account for shifts in public opinion.

D  Government policy never influences public opinion because most Americans pay very little attention to politics; this dynamic allows government policy to be more or less unresponsive to the public.

A  Cues are easy; cues from trusted officials are usually consistent with a person’s underlying preferences.

B  Cues are free from bias; they are mostly fact-based and therefore let people make up their own minds more easily.

C  Cues take a lot of effort; because they are more “hard-earned,” they are more valuable to individuals.

D  Cues are not really partisan; they tend to come from objective or non-partisan sources so are easier for more people to use.

A  that media coverage of the president’s handling of the crisis is supportive of his efforts

B  that the media went along with the president’s interests in reporting on the crisis

C  that the president is influencing media coverage to positively report on his efforts

D  that media coverage of the president’s handling of the crises is not always favorable

A  the traditional media almost never educate or persuade members of the public.

B  federal law limits what they may say to journalists from the mainstream press but not what they may say on social media sites.

C  social media is free, whereas the mainstream press often charges monetary fees for broadcasting messages.

D  they can more directly control the content of their communication and speak to the public more directly

A  receiving and accepting.

B  skimming and scanning.

C  searching and sampling.

D  browsing and breezing.

A  public opinion shifts in response to changes in government policy.

B  government policy shifts in response to changes in public opinion.

C  members of the federal bureaucracy report to Congress about a law’s effectiveness.

D  interest groups provide congressional testimony during the lawmaking process.

A  memory

B  online processing

C  motivated reasoning

D  “receive,” “accept,” “sample”

A  the use of opinion pollsters who market a politician’s speeches, ideas, and votes.

B  the explosion of information brought on by the internet and other advances in electronic communication.

C  the competition between varying opinions and ideas that are aired in public forums.

D  important changes in copyright and patent laws that have restricted Americans’ access to free information.

A  differences between the rich and poor

B  racial inequalities

C  conflicts between central and local governments

D  geographic differences

A  NIMBY-ism.

B  geographic sorting.

C  redlining.

D  political socialization.

A  that women earn, on average, less than men

B  that women received the right to vote in the United States long after most men did

C  that men are more supportive of Donald Trump’s presidency than women

D  that men and women have roughly the same overall levels of support for abortion

A  person’s education.

B  media.

C  region of the country the person inhabits.

D  person’s family.

A  conservatives or libertarians.

B  liberals, conservatives, or moderates.

C  liberals or socialists.

D  libertarians or socialists.

A  political attitudes.

B  political preferences.

C  political ideologies.

D  public opinions.

A  Justice

B  Liberty

C  Democracy

D  Equality

A  Socialists

B  Internationalists

C  Liberals

D  Conservatives

A  liberal and conservative

B  independent and moderate

C  liberty, equality of opportunity, and democracy

D  internationalist and isolationist

A  conservative; libertarian

B  libertarian; conservative

C  democratic socialist; libertarian

D  libertarian; democratic socialist

A  opposition to military intervention and the ramping down of American military power.

B  support for military intervention and the maintenance of American military power.

C  opposition to the continued existence of the European Union.

D  opposition to the United States’ membership in the United Nations.

A  ideology; attitude

B  value; ideology

C  attitude; value

D  ideology; value

A  a cohesive set of beliefs that form a general philosophy about the government.

B  the various attitudes that citizens possess toward political issues, events, and people.

C  the specific preferences individuals contemplate while discussing an issue.

D  the concrete interests that people try to defend through public policy.