POL 102 CORRECT FINALS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔racial profiling - ✔✔Using race to suspect someone of a crime.
✔✔registration restrictions - ✔✔Laws limiting voter registration.
✔✔social equality - ✔✔Equal treatment in society.
✔✔social movements - ✔✔Groups pushing for social change.
✔✔strict scrutiny - ✔✔Highest standard for judging discrimination laws.
✔✔Thirteenth Amendment - ✔✔Abolished slavery.
✔✔Title IX - ✔✔Prevents gender discrimination in education.
✔✔Twenty-Fourth Amendment - ✔✔Ended poll taxes.
✔✔Voting Rights Act - ✔✔Protected minority voting rights.
✔✔white-only primaries - ✔✔Excluded minorities from voting in primaries.
✔✔agents of political socialization - ✔✔Factors that shape a person's political beliefs.
✔✔conservative ideology - ✔✔Supports traditional values socially and limited
government in the economy.
✔✔continuity (public opinion) - ✔✔Opinions tend to stay stable over time.
✔✔direction (public opinion) - ✔✔Whether opinion is positive or negative.
, ✔✔intensity (public opinion) - ✔✔Strength of people's opinions.
✔✔liberal ideology - ✔✔Supports government involvement in the economy but freedom
on social issues.
✔✔political ideology - ✔✔A set of beliefs that guide political thinking.
✔✔political orientations - ✔✔How people interpret politics based on beliefs.
✔✔political preferences - ✔✔Opinions about leaders, policies, and issues.
✔✔political socialization - ✔✔Process of developing political beliefs.
✔✔primacy tendency - ✔✔Early beliefs tend to stick the most.
✔✔pseudo-poll - ✔✔Fake poll meant to influence opinions.
✔✔public opinion - ✔✔Overall views of the public.
✔✔public opinion poll - ✔✔Survey measuring opinions of a sample group.
✔✔random-digit dialing (RDD) - ✔✔Random phone sampling method.
✔✔sampling error - ✔✔Difference between sample and population results.
✔✔scientific sample - ✔✔Random, representative sample.
✔✔straw poll - ✔✔Informal, unreliable poll.
✔✔unscientific polls - ✔✔Non-representative surveys.
✔✔values and beliefs - ✔✔Core principles people hold.
✔✔closed shop - ✔✔Workers must join a union.
✔✔economic interest group - ✔✔Group focused on economic benefits.
✔✔free rider - ✔✔Person who benefits without contributing.
✔✔grassroots lobbying - ✔✔Influencing officials through public pressure.
✔✔interest group - ✔✔Organization that influences policy.
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔racial profiling - ✔✔Using race to suspect someone of a crime.
✔✔registration restrictions - ✔✔Laws limiting voter registration.
✔✔social equality - ✔✔Equal treatment in society.
✔✔social movements - ✔✔Groups pushing for social change.
✔✔strict scrutiny - ✔✔Highest standard for judging discrimination laws.
✔✔Thirteenth Amendment - ✔✔Abolished slavery.
✔✔Title IX - ✔✔Prevents gender discrimination in education.
✔✔Twenty-Fourth Amendment - ✔✔Ended poll taxes.
✔✔Voting Rights Act - ✔✔Protected minority voting rights.
✔✔white-only primaries - ✔✔Excluded minorities from voting in primaries.
✔✔agents of political socialization - ✔✔Factors that shape a person's political beliefs.
✔✔conservative ideology - ✔✔Supports traditional values socially and limited
government in the economy.
✔✔continuity (public opinion) - ✔✔Opinions tend to stay stable over time.
✔✔direction (public opinion) - ✔✔Whether opinion is positive or negative.
, ✔✔intensity (public opinion) - ✔✔Strength of people's opinions.
✔✔liberal ideology - ✔✔Supports government involvement in the economy but freedom
on social issues.
✔✔political ideology - ✔✔A set of beliefs that guide political thinking.
✔✔political orientations - ✔✔How people interpret politics based on beliefs.
✔✔political preferences - ✔✔Opinions about leaders, policies, and issues.
✔✔political socialization - ✔✔Process of developing political beliefs.
✔✔primacy tendency - ✔✔Early beliefs tend to stick the most.
✔✔pseudo-poll - ✔✔Fake poll meant to influence opinions.
✔✔public opinion - ✔✔Overall views of the public.
✔✔public opinion poll - ✔✔Survey measuring opinions of a sample group.
✔✔random-digit dialing (RDD) - ✔✔Random phone sampling method.
✔✔sampling error - ✔✔Difference between sample and population results.
✔✔scientific sample - ✔✔Random, representative sample.
✔✔straw poll - ✔✔Informal, unreliable poll.
✔✔unscientific polls - ✔✔Non-representative surveys.
✔✔values and beliefs - ✔✔Core principles people hold.
✔✔closed shop - ✔✔Workers must join a union.
✔✔economic interest group - ✔✔Group focused on economic benefits.
✔✔free rider - ✔✔Person who benefits without contributing.
✔✔grassroots lobbying - ✔✔Influencing officials through public pressure.
✔✔interest group - ✔✔Organization that influences policy.
