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.

3

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