POLS 101 Final Exam questions with answers
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What trends do you notice in public opinion by... Age? Education?
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Income? Gender? Religion? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Age: as age
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increases, conservatism increases
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Education: as education increases, liberalism increases
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Income: as income increases, fiscal conservatism increases
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Gender: women are more likely to be liberal
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Religion: as religiosity increases, conservatism increases
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What are Americans' views on the US system and democracy? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ |\ |\
How do people view federal/state/local government? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔ |\
What is polarization in regards to political parties? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔the divergence of political attitudes to ideological
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extremes
Are we more/ less polarized than the 1970s? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔more |\
What is fake news doing to the media coverage/trust in
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government? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔decreasing trust in |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
government, delegitimizing the media |\ |\ |\
, How do we measure and track public opinion? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔public opinion polls, election results, media
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What are nonprobability samples? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔technique where the samples are gathered in a process that |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
does not give all the individuals in the population equal chances
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of being selected
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How have presidents used polls to shape public
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opinion/campaigns? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Lincoln:
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Understood need for a electoral mandate, especially to take
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nation into war |\ |\
FDR: First president to use a private polling service- Election
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strategy, Public policy |\ |\
Truman: Polls said that a Dewey presidency was "inevitable",
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Truman won the electoral vote by a 303-189 majority over
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Dewey, Polling had stopped 3 weeks earlier, models for
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undecideds were wrong |\ |\
What are the perks of using social media for politicians? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔politicians can choose the information
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they are presenting to the public
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What is the role of the media? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔relay
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information on politics, politicians, and policy |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
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What trends do you notice in public opinion by... Age? Education?
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Income? Gender? Religion? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Age: as age
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increases, conservatism increases
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Education: as education increases, liberalism increases
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Income: as income increases, fiscal conservatism increases
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Gender: women are more likely to be liberal
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Religion: as religiosity increases, conservatism increases
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What are Americans' views on the US system and democracy? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ |\ |\
How do people view federal/state/local government? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔ |\
What is polarization in regards to political parties? - CORRECT
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
ANSWERS ✔✔the divergence of political attitudes to ideological
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
extremes
Are we more/ less polarized than the 1970s? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔more |\
What is fake news doing to the media coverage/trust in
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
government? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔decreasing trust in |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
government, delegitimizing the media |\ |\ |\
, How do we measure and track public opinion? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔public opinion polls, election results, media
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What are nonprobability samples? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔technique where the samples are gathered in a process that |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
does not give all the individuals in the population equal chances
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of being selected
|\ |\
How have presidents used polls to shape public
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opinion/campaigns? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Lincoln:
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Understood need for a electoral mandate, especially to take
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
nation into war |\ |\
FDR: First president to use a private polling service- Election
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strategy, Public policy |\ |\
Truman: Polls said that a Dewey presidency was "inevitable",
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Truman won the electoral vote by a 303-189 majority over
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Dewey, Polling had stopped 3 weeks earlier, models for
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undecideds were wrong |\ |\
What are the perks of using social media for politicians? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔politicians can choose the information
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they are presenting to the public
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What is the role of the media? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔relay
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information on politics, politicians, and policy |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
