FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP GOV CHP 6 EXAM

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP GOV CHP 6 EXAM

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Question 1: public opinion

Answer:

the distribution of the populations beliefs about politics and policy issues

Question 2: sample

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a relatively small proportion of people who are chosen in a survey so as to be representative of the whole

Question 3: sampling error

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the level of confidence in the findings of a public opinion poll. the more people interviewed, the more confident one can be of the results

Question 4: reapportionment

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the process of reallocating seats in the House of Representatives every 10 years on the basis of the results of the consensus

Question 5: exit poll

Answer:

public opinion surveys used by major media pollsters to predict electoral winners with speed and precision

Question 6: minority majority

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the situation, likely beginning in the mid-twenty-first century, in which the non-Hispanic whites will represent a minority of the US population and minority groups together will represent the majority

Question 7: gender gap

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the regular pattern in which women are more likely to support Democratic candidates, in part because they tend to be less conservative than men and more likely to support spending on social services and to oppose higher levels of military spending.

Question 8: political participation

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all activities used by citizens to influence the selection of political leaders or the policies they pursue.The most common means being voting

Question 9: political ideology

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a coherent set of beliefs about politics, public policy, and public purpose, which helps give meaning to political events

Question 10: political socialization

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the process through which individuals in a society acquire political attitudes, view, and knowledge, based on inputs from family, schools, the media, and others

Question 11: protest

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a form of political participation designed to achieve policy change through dramatic and unconventional tactics

Question 12: demography

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the science of population changes

Question 13: random-digit dialing

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a technique used by pollsters to place telephone calls randomly to both listed and unlisted numbers when conducting a survey

Question 14: census

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an "actual enumeration" of the population, which the Constitution requires that the government conduct every 10 years

Question 15: random sampling

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the key technique employed by survey researchers, which operates on the principle that everyone should have an equal probability of being selected for the sample

Question 16: political culture

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an overall set of values widely shared within a society

Question 17: melting pot

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a term often used to characterize the US, with its history of immigration and mixing of cultures, ideas, and people

Question 18: civil disobedience

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a form of political participation based on a conscious decision to break the law believed to be unjust and to suffer the consequences