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| Which of the following media sources has significantly increased its influence over public opinion, particularly among young people, during the past decade? |
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| Which of the following accurately describes a recent trend in U.S. public opinion? |
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| Public opinion has grown more supportive of civil rights for racial minorities. |
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| Which of the following would be at least likely to influence a respondent's answer about proposed abortion legislation? |
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| Public-opinion analysts agree that the level of public knowledge about politics is _____________ . |
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| Closed-ended questions _____________ . |
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| ask respondents to choose among pre-formulated answers |
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| A poll that asks questions of a set of people specifically chosen to represent the whole population is a _____________ . |
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| The process by which individuals come to have certain core beliefs and political attitudes is generally referred to as _____________ . |
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| Which of the following is least likely to affect the results of a poll? |
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POSSIBLY: spontaneous answers
(NOT no measurement of the intensity of respondent's feelings) |
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| Which is an example of populist movement? |
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| You construct a survey in which Question 8 asks respondents if they favor government funding for needy families. This is _____________ . |
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| an example of a forced-choice question |
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| On which of these issues would Americans have the greatest difficulty forming an opinion? |
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MAYBE?? the crisis in Darfur?
(NOT corporation taxation) |
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| The government plays an important role in framing and informing what area of public opinion? |
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| Internet surveys are problematic because _____________ . |
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| they don't represent a random sample |
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| Randomness in thousands of public opinions tend to _____________ . |
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| reveal a stable collective public opinion |
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| If a survey has an underrepresented population in its sample, what should researchers do? |
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| Weight the survey respondents to make the sample more closely match the general population |
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| The lack of informed public opinion on policy issues _____________ . |
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| increases the influence of lobbyists who have direct access to policy makers |
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| compared to republicans, democrats are more likely to _____________ . |
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| support stem cell research |
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| Americans are generally accepting of _____________ . |
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| political equality and equality of opportunity, but not equality of outcome. |
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| LIberals, more than conservatives, tend to believe which of the following? |
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| abortion should be permitted always or as needed |
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| Hispanic voters are a growing force in American politics because of _____________ . |
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| their projected population increase |
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| In a true democracy, there must be a close match between _____________, government policies and actions, at least in the long run. |
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| The secret to getting accurate surveys in public opinion is _____________ . |
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| to interview a random sampling to ensure representation of the whole population |
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| On the assumption of _____________ , opinion changes for perfectly understandable reasons, such as dramatic events, new information, or changes in perspective among American leaders. |
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| Our earliest views of political matters usually come from _____________ . |
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| In general, individuals who identify themselves as liberals tend to support _____________ . |
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