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Political Psychology Final
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Statistical Model Downes - Rational Choice (low informed voting) | All that matters is distance on issue positions in politics Logical thinking about things and reasoning need to collect lots of information and be fully informed -> most people wont be like this because cognative work and slow to be fully informed |
| Gut Rationality -Intuition (low informed voting) | a way people make political decisions b/c effortless, instant, emotional can be bad ld to costly decisions but also really good and works will and helps to make good rapid decisions through TRIAL AND ERROR you initiate something right when you percieve |
| Bounded Cognitive processing | have cognitive limitation to make fully informed decesion in politics politicians flip flop to avoid outcasting people |
| Heuristic -bounded | involving or serving as an aid to learning problem solving by trial and error or experimentation (cognitively, not scientifically) experience going through life, learn how the world works, say hi to someone, they say hi back (learn what except from ppl) |
| Representativeness heuristic | Judge indiv. by how well they fit the image (representation) we have of that kind of person Politics: voting, we except Prez to be presidential -> Harris: black women, most prez white man Less likely to judge a person on their past record than traits |
| Personal and Political info | look for personal info first (judge from personal to political) (narrative> facts) Take personal info> political (facts (past perform) cant hold up to personal (perform on TV) |
| Gresham's law modified | personal info drives political info out of circulation |
| Important personal info a voter looks for | Candidates... -looks -campaign trail activity -who they are Biden Trump ppl saw as old and dumb |
| The Drunkard's search | obvious info drives out obscure info, looking for info where it is easiest to find (like sound bites instead of watching whole debate) |
| Perfer what dimension of info | unidimensional info compare and contrest on ONE easy thig |
| Horse-race politics | compare everyone to the poll leader one questions always gets released: who are you going to vote for? -> define things going forward, candidate with most name recog become the poll leader (trump v. all rep candidates) |
| Popkins | people take information short cuts, so least care about policy more on personal |
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