AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

Chapter 8 – Review Game

1. What term refers to attitudes held by a significant number of people on
matters of government and politics? Public opinion
2. What two factors have the biggest impact on public opinion?
Family and schools
3. What term refers to communication that reaches large, widely dispersed
audiences simultaneously? Mass media
4. What term refers to the people with whom one regularly associates?A
PEER GROUP
5. Peer groups typically __________ a person's belief system
contradict
challenge
reinforce (ANS)
reverse
6. What is a person who has a strong influence on the views of others?
Opinion leader
7. What historical event ended Republican domination in 1932 and began 40
years of Democratic leadership? The Great Depression
8. What are instructions or command a constituency gives to its elected
officials?
mandate
9. What term refers to a private organization whose members share certain
views and objectives and work to shape the making and content of public
policy?
INTEREST GROUP
10. What is a device that attempts to collect information by asking people
questions?
Public opinion poll
11. What is a faulty method of gathering information by asking the same
question of a large number of people? A straw vote
12. In scientific polling, what is the whole population you want to measure?
UNIVERSE
13. What is a representative slice of the total universe? A sample
14. What is a sample in which each member of the universe and each
geographic area within it have a mathematically equal chance of being
included? Random sample
15. What is a sample deliberately constructed to reflect several of the
major characteristics of a given universe? Quota sample
16. What is a means of communication? MEDIUM
17. Which President did viewers watch at the first public demonstration of
television?
Franklin Roosevelt
18. What are the three major national television networks?
ABC
CBS
NBC
19. The number of daily newspapers has __________ since 1920.
more than doubled
increased by about 25%
stayed about the same
decreased by about 25%
20. What news story was featured on the first radio broadcast in 1920?
American presidential election returns
21. Which of the following is not a news magazine?
Time
Newsweek
National Review (ANS)
U.S. News and World Report
22. What is societal problems that need governmental attention?The public
agenda
23. What is a news report lasting less than a minute?Sound bite
24. According to studies, what portion of the voting population is well
informed on candidates and issues?
15% (ANS)
33%
50%
75%
25. Which principle of the Constitution is best expressed through elections?
popular sovereignty