Political Cognitive Maps Flashcards

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3 elements that make up our PCM?

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Cognitive orientation (facts) + Affective orientation (feelings) + Judgments

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what are our political actions (and PCM) determined by?

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our beliefs: personality and thoughts

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What are cognitive maps?

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method used to construct and accumulate spatial knowledge, allowing the “mind’s eye” to visualize images in order to reduce cognitive load, enhance recall and learning of information

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What is a PCM?

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It is a mental picture of what political worlds are to us and how we relate to them that defines how we receive, order and interpret political information, signals and stimuli.

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What are some pitfalls of PCMs?

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As the information we receive in distorted/misguided, so is usually our political perspective (gap of info, wrong info, biases…). And we still act as if we had all the info!

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what determines our intake of information?

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How dense (detailed) our “filter” or “velcro” is determines what is important to us (influence how we receive, interpret and use the info) and what we ignore.It is also situational (ex: interest in politics during elections only)

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PCM is a dynamic process

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Orientation (and PCM) develops over time = our opinion is more persistent thanks to knowledge, learning, experiences etc. Doesn’t mean we have all the answers!

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What is cognitive orientation? give examples

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facts that we know (or think we know) about politics. Ex: who is the PM of Japan, how federal liberals differ from provincial liberals

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What is affective orientation? give examples

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how we feel about aspect of the political world (“gut feeling”)Ex: what do you think of a tax increase? About war?

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What are judgments? give examples

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how we assess the political world. It merges facts and feelings into political judgment.Ex: should we legalize gay marriage? Does voting matter?

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what are the consequences of distortion?

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negative outcome if lack/wrong knowledge + excessive trust in politicians

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What is alienation proportional to?

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the unmapibility of a system (a city, politics…) Ex: London’s subway

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what is the political culture’s dilemma?

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nature VS nurture

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what is the human nature argument?

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we are born with innate knowledge, attitudes and opinions (in DNA).Ex: violence is innate in humans

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what is the nurture argument?

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we are born “tabla rasa” (blank state) and learn everything we know/do/feel

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what is political socialization?

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central values of a political culture transmitted from 1 generation to the other by agents of socialization

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who are the agents of socialization?

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people, institutions, family, friends, media, education, religion, peers

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what are 6 factors that influence our political culture? (and PCM)

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agents of socialization, life-cycle effect, period effect, cohort effect, socio-demographic influence and political advances

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what is the life-cycle effect?

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as one gets older his/her political views change and become + conservative and traditional (change resistant)

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what is the period effect?

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people who grow up in the same time period share similar values due to events that occurred during this period. Ex: new tech generation, war …

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what is the cohort effect?

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people participate in some political actions or experience them together. Ex: was in Vietnam, 9/11

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what are some socio-demographic elements?

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Education, region, race, gender …

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what are political advances

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marking political events share by a group of peopl. Ex: Tian’ anmen

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what is political alienation?

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The feeling of being powerless about politics and political decisions and excluded from the political system.