FREE AP COMPARATIVE GOV. AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

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FREE AP COMPARATIVE GOV. AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

CH 6 AP GOV EXAM QUESTIONS

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-Guarantee passing score -17 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation

Question 1: Melting pot

Answer:

the mixing of cultures, ideas, and people that have changed the American nation

Question 2: Civil Disobedience

Answer:

reflects a conscious decision to break a law believed to me immoral and to suffer the consequences

Question 3: random sampling

Answer:

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

Question 4: Minority Majority

Answer:

the emergence of a non-Caucasian majority

Question 5: reapportionment

Answer:

the process of reallocating seats in the House of Reps every 10 years on the basis of the results of the census

Question 6: Political socialization

Answer:

how someone gets their particular political orientations, such as knowledge, feelings, and the way you were raised

Question 7: protest

Answer:

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

Question 8: random digit dialing

Answer:

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

Question 9: Political disobedience

Answer:

all the activities used by citizens to influence the selection of political leaders or the policies they pursue.

Question 10: Political culture

Answer:

an overall set of values widely shared within a society

Question 11: sampling error

Answer:

the level of confidence in the findings of a public opinion poll

Question 12: sample

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

Question 13: Gender gap

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the regular pattern by which women are more likely to support democratic candidates; women tend to be significantly less conservative than men and are more likely to support spending on social services and to opposed higher levels of military spending

Question 14: Public Opinion

Answer:

The distribution of the population's beliefs about politics and policy issues

Question 15: exit poll

Answer:

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

Question 16: census

Answer:

a valuable tool for understanding demographic changes

Question 17: Demography

Answer:

the science of population changes