Government Ch. 6 Quiz
The only presidential election in which the Gallup poll erred badly was
1948 Truman-Dewey.
A properly drawn sample of one thousand individuals has a sampling error of roughly plus or minus ________ percent.
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which of the following is true of the relationship between public opinion and shifts in major government policies
On highly salient and emotional issues particularly, public opinion tends to affect policy to a greater degree than policymakers' agendas affect public opinion
students are most likely to hear stories about America's heroes and greatness when they are in
elementary school
in terms of party identification, slightly more than half of adults call themselves
fully republican or democrat
The process by which individuals acquire their political opinions is called
political socialization
A person who favors government intervention in both social and economic affairs is an
populist
which of the following ideological types favor government activism in the economic realm
populists and libertarians
The most powerful religious force in contemporary American society is the
religious right
The accuracy of a poll is usually expressed in terms of
sampling error
what was the primary cause for an increase in the public support for a military invasion of Iraq during the six-month period leading to the start of the war
the Bush administration efforts to press the case for war
The key factors in determining the accuracy of an opinion poll are
the size of the sample and whether the sample was selected from the population by a random method.
Women are less likely than men to favor
the use of force to settle international disputes
which of the following statements is least likely to apply to economic or social liberals
they believe The government should be used to promote traditional values
which of the following is true about public opinion polling
(All of these answers are correct) -Polls are the most relied upon method of measuring public opinion -Polls can be erroneous at times -Most large news organizations have their own in-house polls -The Gallup pollsters have correctly predicted the winner of presidential elections most of the time since 1936
a general belief about the role and purpose of government is called
an ideology
_______ once said that he spent nearly all his adult life in government and yet had never seen a government
Woodrow Wilson
A member of Congress who wants to act on what the majority of his or her constituency thinks on a particular issue would be advised to respond to which of the following indicators
a poll based on a random sample of constituents
Sources of polling error can include
a. use of random television polling b. unrepresentative samples. c. respondents' lack of knowledge or interest in the issue. d. poorly worded questions. (all are correct)
which of the following would not be considered a secondary socializing agent
church
Libertarians are opposed to governmental intervention
in both the economic and social spheres.
Historically, dramatic change in party identification is uncommon and is almost always a consequence of
major upheaval
Elizabeth Noelle-Neumann's spiral of silence theory contends that
most individuals are reluctant to speak out against dominant opinion
what term do scholars use for a purported opinion offered by a respondent who is unfamiliar with the specific issue
nonopinion
The process of political socialization in the United States is
normally cumulative; political beliefs attained earlier in life tend to be retained to a substantial degree.
selective perception is primarily a result of
partisanship
As an agent of political socialization, the American family will likely have its greatest effect on an individual's
party identification
which of the following is not a primary socializing agent
peers