Chapter 6-7:

Question 0

Demography

Answer 0

The science of population changes.

Question 1

Public Opinion

Answer 1

The distribution of the population’s beliefs about politics and policy issues.

Question 2

Census

Answer 2

A valuable tool for understanding demographic changes. The Constitution requires that they take a census every ten years.

Question 3

Melting Pot

Answer 3

The mixing of cultures, ideas, and peoples that has changed the American nation.

Question 4

Minority Majority

Answer 4

The emergence of non-Caucasian majority, as compared with a White, generally Anglo-Saxon majority.

Question 5

Political Culture

Answer 5

An overall set of values widely shared within a society.

Question 6

Reapportionment

Answer 6

The process of reallocating seats in the House of Representatives every ten years on basis of the results of the census.

Question 7

Political Socialization

Answer 7

The process through which an individual acquires his particular political orientations-his knowledge, feelings, and evaluations regarding his political world.

Question 8

Sample

Answer 8

A relatively small proportion of people who are chosen in a survey so as to be representative of the whole.

Question 9

Random Sampling

Answer 9

Principle that everyone should have an equal probability of being selected for the sample.

Question 10

Sampling Error

Answer 10

The level of confidence in the findings of a public opinion poll.

Question 11

Random-digit Dialing

Answer 11

Technique used by pollsters to place telephone calls randomly to both listed and unlisted numbers when conducting a survey.

Question 12

Exit Poll

Answer 12

Public opinion surveys used by major media pollsters to predict electoral winners with speed and precision.

Question 13

Political Ideology

Answer 13

A coherent set of beliefs about politics, public policy, and public purpose.

Question 14

Gender Gap

Answer 14

Refers to the regular pattern by which women are more likely to support Democratic candidates.

Question 15

Political Participation

Answer 15

All the activities used by citizens to influence the selection of political leaders or the policies they pursue.

Question 16

Protest

Answer 16

Political participation designed to achieve policy change through dramatic and unconventional tactics.

Question 17

Civil Disobedience

Answer 17

Political participation that reflects a conscious decision to break a law believed to be immoral and to suffer the consequences.

Question 18

High-tech Politics

Answer 18

A politics in which the behavior of citizens and policymakers and the political agenda itself are increasingly shaped by technology.

Question 19

Mass Media

Answer 19

Television, radios, newspapers, magazines, Internet and other means of popular communication.

Question 20

Media Evemts

Answer 20

Events purposely staged for the media that are suppose to look spontaneous.

Question 21

Press Conferences

Answer 21

Meetings with public officials with reporters.

Question 22

Investigative Journalism

Answer 22

Use of in-depth reporting to unearth scandals, scams, and schemes, which puts reporters in adversarial relationships with political leaders.

Question 23

Print Media

Answer 23

Newspapers and magazines, as compared with broadcast media.

Question 24

Broadcast Media

Answer 24

Television and radio

Question 25

Narrowcasting

Answer 25

Media programming on cable TV or Internet that is focused on one topic and aimed at a particular audience.

Question 26

Chains

Answer 26

Newspapers published by massive media conglomerates that account for over 4/5’s of the nation’s daily newspaper circulation.

Question 27

Beats

Answer 27

Specific locations from which news frequently is shown.

Question 28

Trial Balloons

Answer 28

An intentional news leak for the purpose of assessing the political reaction.

Question 29

Sound Bites

Answer 29

Short video clips about 15 seconds

Question 30

Talking Head

Answer 30

A shot of a person’s face talking directly to the camera.

Question 31

Policy Agenda

Answer 31

Issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other people.

Question 32

Policy Entrepreneurs

Answer 32

People who invest their political “capital” in an issue.