POLITICAL SCIENCE 101 EXAM 4 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Public Opinion - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Opinions held by ordinary citizens that officials take into
account when they choose to do something
Close ended questions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Limits # of responses, yes or no questions, multiple
choice
4 ways polls impact voter turnout - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅stimulate turnout, depress turnout,
underdog effect, bandwagon effect
Priming - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Giving the audience context and criteria for a news story
Agenda setting - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Choosing which stories are covered; impacting the priorities
and problems the public knows about
Surroundings + party ID= Voter choice - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Social context theory
Performance + Running Tally + Party ID= Voter choice - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Retrospective voting
theory
Happens every ten years; assigns district to states - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Apportionment
Differences in political views between men and women - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅gender gap
Ways the media incorrectly reports polls - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅misrepresenting the margin of error,
poor sampling, and small sample size
Reforms to the primary election process - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Changes that decentralize the process
, ways the outcome of a poll can change - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅word choice; interviewer and time of
day
Free rider - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Enjoying the benefits without doing the work to get those benefits
4 media models - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅mirror model, professional model, organizational model,
political model
Media story criteria and common storylines - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Criteria: timely, close to home,
familiarity, violence and disaster, strong impact
Storyline: likely loser, frontrunner, losing ground, bandwagon
Roles of the media - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅signaler, common carrier, watch dog, public representation
Initiative - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅When citizens try to/petition to place a proposal on the ballot for
people to vote on
Liberal - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Want expansion of social services, care more about consumers and the
environment
Framing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The media can influence how we interpret events/issues
Right of rebuttal - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅FCC regulation giving people the right to respond to personal
attacks on TV/radio
Prior restraint - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Effort by a government agency to block publications/censorship.
*courts forbid unless under extraordinary circumstances*
Electoral college - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Presidential electors from each state meet up at their state's
capital after popular election to cast ballots for president and VP
Public Opinion - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Opinions held by ordinary citizens that officials take into
account when they choose to do something
Close ended questions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Limits # of responses, yes or no questions, multiple
choice
4 ways polls impact voter turnout - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅stimulate turnout, depress turnout,
underdog effect, bandwagon effect
Priming - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Giving the audience context and criteria for a news story
Agenda setting - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Choosing which stories are covered; impacting the priorities
and problems the public knows about
Surroundings + party ID= Voter choice - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Social context theory
Performance + Running Tally + Party ID= Voter choice - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Retrospective voting
theory
Happens every ten years; assigns district to states - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Apportionment
Differences in political views between men and women - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅gender gap
Ways the media incorrectly reports polls - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅misrepresenting the margin of error,
poor sampling, and small sample size
Reforms to the primary election process - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Changes that decentralize the process
, ways the outcome of a poll can change - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅word choice; interviewer and time of
day
Free rider - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Enjoying the benefits without doing the work to get those benefits
4 media models - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅mirror model, professional model, organizational model,
political model
Media story criteria and common storylines - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Criteria: timely, close to home,
familiarity, violence and disaster, strong impact
Storyline: likely loser, frontrunner, losing ground, bandwagon
Roles of the media - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅signaler, common carrier, watch dog, public representation
Initiative - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅When citizens try to/petition to place a proposal on the ballot for
people to vote on
Liberal - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Want expansion of social services, care more about consumers and the
environment
Framing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The media can influence how we interpret events/issues
Right of rebuttal - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅FCC regulation giving people the right to respond to personal
attacks on TV/radio
Prior restraint - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Effort by a government agency to block publications/censorship.
*courts forbid unless under extraordinary circumstances*
Electoral college - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Presidential electors from each state meet up at their state's
capital after popular election to cast ballots for president and VP
