AP Government - Unit 4 (and more!)

Polls based on interviews conducted on election day with randomly selected voters. 

• Sampling error
• Opinion polls
• Exit polls
• Random sample

Which socialization factor is the first to influence the political attitudes of individuals?

• Family

• The President

• Elementary school teacher

• Sesame Street

What are demographics?

• Demographics are the “measure of the people”

• Demographics are the social indicators or socio-economic status (SES) of individuals in the population

• Demographics indicate race, class, family, religion, residence, age, gender etc

• All the above

Which theory of participation says that power is concentrated in the hands of a few rich and powerful individuals?

• Rational actor theory

• Elitism

• Pluralism

• All the above

A set of ideas, beliefs... about how government should operate and how much government should be involved in our day to day lives.

• Political Ideology
• Political Party
• Political Spectrum
• Two Party System

What is political socialization?

• All the people who might be interest group members because they share the same common interest.
• The process through which an individual acquires his/her particular orientations - his/her knowledge, feelings, and evaluations regarding his/her political world.
• How similar cases have been decided in the past.
• The distribution of the population's beliefs about politics and policy issues.

What subject is Federalist #10 primarily about?

• The Bill of Rights
• Factions
• The Constitution
• The seperation of church and state

An economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of state control or government intervention.

• Individualism

• Socialism

• Free Enterprise

• Equality of Outcome

A principle of constitutional government in which the government's powers are defined and limited by a constitution.

• Limited Government

• Party Platform

• Polarization

• Means Test

A political party's formal statement of its basic principles, objectives, and positions on major issues.

• Limited Government

• Party Platform

• Polarization

• Means Test