Unit 1 Practice Test

What are agencies of socialization?

• The Department of American Socialization (DAS)

• The Agencies for Social and Economic development

• The family, school, religion and other social institutions that transmit values from one generation to the next

• All the above

What is political efficacy?

• The feeling that one’s politics beliefs are better than another’s.

• The attachment a person has to a particular political party

• The feeling that one’s political participation makes a difference

• None of the above

Where in the Constitution does it protect the rights of the people to participate in politics and government?

• The 1^st Amendment

• The 14^th Amendment

• The 15^th Amendment

• All the above

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.

Most of us gain our basic attitudes that shape our political opinions from

• the media

• church

• friends

• family

Factors that influence an individual's political attitudes, opinions, and beliefs (Check all that apply)

• Gender/Ethnicity

• Family

• School

• News/Media

A method of systematically polling a selected group of people who are representative of the total population

• Media

• Public Agenda

• Opinion Poll

• Political Socialization

The difference between what the sample results show and what the true result would be if everyone had been interviewed

• Political Socialization

• Intensity

• Sampling Error

• Public Agenda

Most commonly understood to embrace solutions by the private sector for public problems

• Liberal

• Conservative

• Public Agenda

• Media

Most commonly understood to embrace national government solutions to public problems

• Media

• Public Agenda

• Conservative

• Liberal