Unit 3 Test

Question 1

Public Opinion

Answer 1

A diversity of opinion within a particular population

Question 2

Political opinions that exist but have not been fully expressed

Answer 2

Latency

Question 3

A widely shared and held view

Answer 3

Manifest opinion

Question 4

The biggest change in public perception following 9/11 is the increase of Americans not willing to

Answer 4

Trust the national government

Question 5

This state is usually ignored in polling for presidential elections

Answer 5

NY

Question 6

Arose in response to concerns about voting abuses

Answer 6

Registration

Question 7

The secret ballot printed by the state used to help ensure voter regularity is the

Answer 7

Australian ballot

Question 8

In 2004 voter turnout

Answer 8

Decreased

Question 9

Canvassing

Answer 9

The process by which campaigners learn about the issue positions of potential voters

Question 10

Socialization

Answer 10

The way in which we come to see society and ourselves and learn to interact with others

Question 11

Nationalism

Answer 11

Consciousness of the nation state and belonging to it

Question 12

Attitudes

Answer 12

Individual;s propensity to perceive a particular object

Question 13

Selective exposure

Answer 13

People pick media with which they agree

Question 14

Attentive public

Answer 14

People who know and understand how the government works

Question 15

Political know nothings

Answer 15

Rarely interested in politics and seldom vote

Question 16

Part time citizens

Answer 16

Vote in presidential elections but not in others

Question 17

Random sample

Answer 17

Every individual has a known and equal chance of being elected

Question 18

Panel surveys

Answer 18

Interviewing the same sample more than once to t rack opinion change

Question 19

Latency

Answer 19

Political opinions that are held but not yet expressed

Question 20

Salience

Answer 20

An individual’s belief that an issue is important/relevant

Question 21

24th Amendment

Answer 21

Banned poll taxes

Question 22

National Voting Rights Act

Answer 22

Outlawed the use of literacy test

Question 23

General elections

Answer 23

Elections in which voters elect office holders

Question 24

Primary elections

Answer 24

Elections in which voters determine party nominees

Question 25

Special elections

Answer 25

Replace members of the House of Reps who have died or left office

Question 26

Presidential elections

Answer 26

Elections held in years when the president is on the ballot

Question 27

Midterm elections

Answer 27

Elections held midway between presidential elections

Question 28

Off year elections

Answer 28

Elections held in odd numbered calendar years

Question 29

Banking the vote

Answer 29

Mobilizing voters to vote early to reduce people needed to mobilize on election day

Question 30

26th Amendment

Answer 30

Lowered voter age to 18 (decreased voter turnout because young people are least likely to vote)

Question 31

Wedge issues

Answer 31

Issues that motivate particular segments of the electorate to vote and on which the opposing candidates has a less popular position

Question 32

Prospective issue voting

Answer 32

Voting based on what a candidate pledges to do

Question 33

Retrospective issue voting

Answer 33

Voting based on what a candidate did in office

Question 34

Provisional ballots

Answer 34

Ballots cast by people not on the voter registration list but who are registered

Question 35

Interest articulation

Answer 35

Way for citizens to express their needs

Question 36

Protest

Answer 36

Spontaneous gathering of outraged ghetto dwellers

Question 37

Anomic groups

Answer 37

Spontaneous groups that form suddenly when many people response similarly to frustration

Question 38

Wildcat strikes

Answer 38

Spontaneous strike actions by local workers, not organized actions by national unions

Question 39

Non-associational groups

Answer 39

Groups that are based on common interests and are not organized; episodic activity

Question 40

Associational group

Answer 40

Group formed explicitly to represent the interests of a particular group

Question 41

Voter turnout in presidential elections was

Answer 41

Highest in the late 1800s

Question 42

Civil Society

Answer 42

A society in which people are involved in social and political interactions free of state control or regulation