Chapters 5 and 6 Public Opinion and Political Socialization and The Media Test- AP U.S. Government

Which of the following statements reflects the role public opinion should play according to the majoritarian model of democracy?

Government should do what a majority of the public wants.

What role do majoritarian theorists assign to public opinion in a democratic system?

A major one; they think government should do what the majority wants.

Which of the following is generally part of the political socialization we get in grade school?

A respect for order and patriotic rituals, and democratic norms of doing things.

Donald Trump's frequent outrageous tweets, especially the ones that end with, "Sad!" are designed to be

a media event.

When Cook County Board Chairman Toni Preckwinkle tells board members to explain the benefits of the soda tax to constituents this is called

a two-step flow of communication

The opportunities for genuine two-way flows of information between citizens and government

are being made possible by the Internet

The phrase "off the record" means that media

are not allowed to print the information

The leaders of the National Rifle Association, National Right-to-Life, and the American Civil Liberties Union, members of:

attentive policy elites.

When there is an asymmetrical but generally bell-shaped distribution of opinions, where one side is heavily favored over another, what kind of a distribution is this?

Skewed

The major agents of early socialization in the United States are

family, school, community, and peers

The contemporary political "gender gap" refers to the tendency of women to

identify more with the Democratic Party than men do

There was a lot of news coverage of some stupid burglars who stole and crashed a few cars in Elmhurst, but a lot less discussion of the effect of the House tax bill on student debt. What is this an example of

newsworthiness

The set of values and beliefs that a person holds about the purpose and scope of government is called

political ideology

The process whereby one becomes aware of politics, learns political facts, and forms political values is called

political socialization

The traditional division of mass media into _________ has been made problematic by the Internet.

print and broadcast

A person's position in society, based on a combination of education, occupational status, & income is

socioeconomic status

General entertainment programming that often includes discussions of political affairs, such as The Daily Show, The Today Show, and The View is called

soft news

If Jesse Sharkey, the head of the CTU, tells his membership to call their aldermen and anyone else they can think of to oppose Mayor Lightfoot's new budget, this is an example of

two-step flow of communication

_________ occurs when a magazine informs a relatively small number of group leaders who follow news in a specific area, and those leaders in turn mobilize their followers to put pressure on public officials.

two-step flow of communication

Certain publications, the Washington Post in particular, have a reputation for investing a lot of resources, human and other, in digging into the background and results of government decisions. This is called

watchdog journalism

The printing or other publication of stories about sexual harrassment by members of Congress is an example of:

watchdog journalism

Which of the following is most likely to participate in politics, not only by voting but also signing petitions, volunteering for campaigns, etc.?

An African American female dentist over 50 with a successful suburban practice

Which of the following is most likely to vote in all elections in their town

An engineering professor who makes over $100,000.00.

A country where the government heavily censors Internet news and search engines is

China

The now-abolished __________ obligated broadcasters to discuss public issues and to provide equal coverage of all opinions on those issues

Fairness Doctrine

The part of the federal government that regulates the mass media is

Federal Communications Commission

If ideological public opinion really is bimodal in distribution, then what should a political consultant advise their presidential candidate to do?

Focus on holding their own party's voters, and getting out their own vote

One of the nation's oldest polls, the __________, was started in the 1930s, and was most notably wrong in 1948 when it predicted that Thomas Dewey, the Republican candidate, would defeat the Democratic incumbent, Harry Truman in the presidential election

Gallup Poll

If the people have had a change of mind (or heart) about a particular issue, where can we expect to see it show up first in the government, other than public opinion polls?

House of Representatives

Defenders of traditional news reporting make all but which of the following criticisms of the new technological journalism era?

The media no longer play a critical role in the democratic process.

A business owner who votes for lower capital gains taxes, and a public schoolteacher who votes for higher real estate taxes in Illinois, are both voting accourding to which principle of public opinion?

The self-interest principle

Which is the best predictor of somebody's political affiliation

What their family thinks about politics.

Which of the following statements concerning gender and political beliefs is incorrect?

Women are more likely to favor going to war.

Private ownership of the media in the United States makes the American news industry

dependent on advertising revenues

The first newspapers in the United States were

financed by political parties that advocated party causes.

During the Republican primary in 2016, many news stations focused more on whether a candidate's comments and behavior were going to help or hurt standing in the polls, rather than the impact on policy positions. This is called

horse race journalism

During the current Democratic presidential primary coverage, many news sources are more concerned with how a candidate's statements will affect his/her standing in the polls than in what they mean for policy. This is called

horserace journalism

Morning news shows, such as Fox and Friends and the Today show, tend to talk about some public issues, but in the general context of humor, news about celebrities, new movies, food, etc. This makes them examples of

infotainment

Asking Republicans in a survey whether they favor reform to help the American people or a continuation of expensive and failing Obamacare is a good example of

issue framing

A feature story that is aired to a targeted listening audience by a media source that supports a specific advertiser of the network is an example of

market-driven journalism

The means employed in mass communication, print and broadcast, are together referred to as

mass media

If we see that public opinion, as it does with ideological self-placement, looks like a bell curve, we are seeing

normal distribution

If Americans are asked a question by a pollster about a subject on which they don't actually know anything, they are most likely to

offer their own opinion with no background whatsoever.

In the United States today, the mass media

provide a two-way channel of communication between the people and the government.

The collective attitudes of citizens regarding a given issue or question is defined as

public opinion

The accuracy of the population sample used for public opinion polls depends on

randomness of selection, size of sample, and variation in the population

Most politicians and many scholars believe that the media's greatest influence on politics is its ability to

set the political agenda

Today, the mass media conduct most polls by

telephone

One critique that pluralists make of the public as a whole is that

the public seldom demonstrates clear, consistent opinions on daily issues of government.

The ideas that information that doesn't entertain isn't worth our attention, and that any news story should be explained in 3 minutes or less, are part of

the television hypothesis