2. 200 400 200 400 600 800 1000 800 1000 Public Opinion Media Political Participation Political Parties & Elections Interest Groups

3. The collected attitudes of citizens on a given issue

4. What is public opinion?

5. The process whereby one becomes aware of politics, learns political facts and forms political values

6. What is political socialization?

7. An agent of early political socialization

8. What is family or school?

9. 3 factors that lead to more accurate political polls

10. What are randomness of the sample, size of the sample and variation in the population?

11. 3 groups that people are a part of that impact peoples political values

12. What are race, gender, religion, education and region?

13. The means employed in mass communication

14. What is mass media?

15. The two types of mass media

16. What are print and broadcast?

17. _________ occurs when a magazine informs a relatively small number of leaders about an issue and those leaders put pressure on public officials

18. What is the two-step flow of communication?

19. The belief that TV is to blame for people knowing little about the news

20. What is the television hypothesis?

21. Media executives, news editors and prominent reporters who direct the flow of news

22. What are gatekeepers?

23. Actions of private citizens by which they seek to influence or support government and politics

24. What is political participation?

25. Relatively uncommon political behavior that challenges or defies established institutions and dominant norms

26. What is unconventional participation?

27. Behavior that seeks to modify or reverse government policy to serve political interest

28. What is influencing behavior?

29. The last expansion of suffrage in the U.S. involved

30. What is age?

31. Where does the Constitution discuss political parties?

32. What is nowhere?

33. Elections that mark a sharp change in the existing patterns of party loyalty

34. What is a critical election?

35. An organization that sponsors candidates for political office under the organization’s name

36. What is a political party?

37. A body of electors chosen by voters to cast ballots for president or vice president

38. What is the electoral college?

39. Every 2 years _____ of the Senate’s seats are filled

40. What is one-third?

41. An organized group of individuals that seeks to influence public policy

42. What is an interest group?

43. Influencing public policy is their primary goal

44. What is an interest group?

45. A strategy that relies on a group representative’s direct personal contact with policymakers

46. What is lobbying?

47. An organized effort to gain public backing by bringing a group’s view to public attention

48. What is an information campaign?

49. Lobbying organization built around policy concerns unrelated to members’ vocational interests

50. What is a citizen group?