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gov exam 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| what is the news media's ideal function in a democracy? | intermediary, foreign diverse views, watch dog |
| explain what the ideal functions of media each mean and why they are important to democracy | intermediary- communication for representation sake diverse views- to understand issues, be informed, translate back into representation watch dog- to prevent against abuse of power |
| what are the three models of media and politics research in american politics? | hypodermic needle model, minimal effects model, subtle effects model |
| what school is associated with the dismissal of the belief that media was all powerful? | columbia school |
| what popular novel was being read over a radio broadcast to cause a miniature panic in US cities | war of the worlds |
| under which mediated effects model does agenda setting, framing, and priming fall? | subtle effects model |
| define framing | Providing a context that affects the context citizens use to evaluate candidates, campaigns, and political issues |
| define priming | Drawing an audience’s attention toward a specific set of standards by which they should evaluate political and candidates |
| define agenda setting | Occurs when readers and watcher of the news that relates to issues of topics influence by what the press covers in a specific way (influenced what they think about, not why they think) |
| what are the journalistic norms | objectivity, neutrality, accuracy, newsbeats, newsworthiness |
| define objectivity | defining both sides of an issue |
| define neutrality | not inserting personal opinions into news coverage |
| define newsbeats | assigned to cover specific institutions or topic areas |
| define newsworthiness | conflict, interesting/relevant |
| what is a political socialization | the manner by which we all learn about politics and develop opinions |
| why does political socialization fall under public opinion | because politics is primarily about the provision of collective goods, and ordinary citizens can achieve political ends only through collective action |
| why is political socialization important in a democracy | Facilitates value transmission, teaching respect for authority, also key in developing partisanship which is important because of the representative democracy |
| what are the two types of political socialization | partisanship development and value transmission |
| what is partisan political socialization | the process by which people acquire relatively enduring orientations towards politics in general and toward their own particular political systems |
| what is value transmission-based political socialization | indication of appropriate norms and practices in citizens, residents, or member |
| what attitudes are developed during childhood? | benevolent leader imagery, values, respect for authority |
| what are some examples of socialization agents? | parents, school, political context |
| define public opinion | Those opinions held by private persons which government find it prudent to heed |
| define attitudes | An organized and consistent manner of thinking, feeling, and reacting with regard to people, groups, social issues, or more generally, any event in one’s government |
| which polls are the most likely ones that demonstrate bias toward one party or another | popular press |
| what ultimately differentiates good polling from bad polling? | measurement and design, sampling, limiting error |
| what are the four steps involved in the psychology of the survey response | comprehension, retrieval, judgement, mapping/response |
| what led scholars to ask about american meaningful political attitudes? | classic lit, current instability of american opinion, political knowledge levels are low |
| what are the five strata of belief systems? | ideologues, near ideologues, group interest, nature of the times, no issue context |
| how do ideologues structure their beliefs and what percentage of americans fall in this group | rely on abstract concepts to evaluate politics/ policy - 2.5% |
| how do near-ideologues structure their political beliefs? | mention these abstract concepts/dimensions but do not seem to have a deep understanding- 9% |
| how do group interests individuals structure their beliefs? | no abstract, overarching understanding of politics- 42% |
| how do nature of the times individuals structure their beliefs? | evaluate parties or candidates in terms of recent events- 24% |
| how do no issues content individuals structure their political beliefs? | no shred of policy significance - 22.5% |
| what are the big 5 personality traits? | personality, self-interest, values, group attitudes, historical events |
| what are the most popular values studied in classic public opinion studies? | egalitarianism and individualism |
| what do events do to political attitudes | can have effects on whole generations and whole time periods, ripple effect through multiple time periods |
| what is the name of the committee that interviews a supreme court justice nominee |
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