Test Bank For We The People, 14th Edition All Chapters - 9781260242928

Test Bank for We The People - 14 - Patterson - Chapter 01 Critical Thinking and Political Culture: Becoming a Responsible Citizen 1) Which of the following best characterizes Americans' knowledge of public affairs today? A) Millennials are better informed than older generations by a wide margin. B) Americans are consistently shown to be among the most well -informed citizens when compared to other democracies. C) Most Americans today are far better informed than previous generations, though knowledge levels are still rather low. D) Misinformation is now at its highest level in the history of polling. E) Baby boomers have been shown to be the most well -informed generation, while younger generations know little about public affairs. 2) Critical thinking is best described as A) the process of forming an opinion after weighing the relevant facts. B) discounting the news from ordinary media outlets. C) rejecting the accounts of bureaucrats and finding alternative versions online. D) assuming that all news are lies until alternative truths present themselves. E) trusting your instincts on the way the world works. 3) Approximately what share of Americans refuses to believe that R ussia interfered in the 2016 elections? A) 6 percent B) 13 percent C) 25 percent D) 33 percent E) 60 percent 4) What type of government suppresses individuality, forcing people to think and act in prescribed ways or risk punishment? A) communist B) socialist C) authoritarian D) egalitarian E) republican 1 Test Bank for We The People - 14 - Patterson - Chapter 01 Critical Thinking and Political Culture: Becoming a Responsible Citizen 5) Which of the following has most recently proven to serve as a significant obstacle to critical thinking? A) changes in the media landscape B) political partisanship C) higher education D) organized protests E) the coastal elites 6) What do behavioral scientists Gordon Pennycook and David Rand call the habit of judging the accuracy of a claim on the basis of who's saying it or whether we've heard it before? A) "cognitive laziness" B) "cognitive disconnect" C) "cognitive bias" D) "the cult of personality" E) "cognitive dissonance" 7) In recent years, A) American politics has become more heated and divisive. B) Americans have become more tolerant of leaders slanting facts. C) American leaders have become more willing to lie. D) Americans have embraced more truthful politicians. E) our politics has become more divisive and heated, leaders have lied more readily, and we have come to tolerate it more. 8) Which of the following is an example of politicians' deliberate slanting of facts? A) calls for tax increases to fund infrastructure B) debates over immigration policy and amnesty for current undocumented immigrants C) the claim that free trade is the cause for the loss of millions of manufacturing jobs D) the insistence that President Barack Obama is a citizen and born in Hawaii E) the claim that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. elections 9) What is the likely result of spending hours listening to partisan talk shows? A) misinformation B) liberalism C) pragmatism D) well-rounded political views E) a distaste for politics 2 Test Bank for We The People - 14 - Patterson - Chapter 01 Critical Thinking and Political Culture: Becoming a Responsible Citizen 10) Which of the following is NOT among the framewor ks used in political science? A) rational choice theory B) liberalism C) institutional analysis D) historical reasoning E) behavioral studies 11) Who among the following was the chief architect of the U.S. Constitution and also one of America's top political scientists? A) James Madison B) Andrew Jackson C) Woodrow Wilson D) Benjamin Franklin E) John Adams 12) Which important aspect of European thought had the greatest impact on the formation of the political culture of America? A) Romanticism B) the Reformation C) the Renaissance D) Rationalism E) the Enlightenment 13) Which of the following is NOT one of the core values of American political culture? A) individualism B) equality C) cooperation D) liberty E) self-government 14) Which of the following statements about cultural or political beliefs in America is FALSE? A) America's origins as a wilderness society led to the belief that government is responsible for providing material assistance to its citizens. B) Americans believe that individuals should be free to act and think as they choose. C) Americans reject European notions of aristocratic privilege. D) America has a strongly individualistic culture. E) Americans generally believe that the people are the ultimate source of governing authority. 3