Public Opinion Vocabulary Practice Quiz

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Match the definitions given by each numbered item below with the correct term that is defined. When you're finished, click "submit" to find out your score, how well you know the vocabulary terms related to public opinion in our democracy. Keep taking this practice quiz until you get a perfect score!

  1. The process by which citizens acquire their sense of political identity
  2. Your answer:
    political socialization
    public opinion
    political symbolization
    ideology


  3. Someone who favors rapid, fundamental change in the existing social, economic, or political order (and often agrees with the use of violence or extreme methods to achieve those things)
  4. Your answer:
    radical
    liberal
    conservative
    moderate


  5. A complex combination of traits (language, customs, traditions, etc. ) that are unique to the population of a country
  6. Your answer:
    ideology
    culture
    socialization
    politics


  7. A person whose attitudes and opinions are somewhere between that of a liberal and conservative (“middle-of-the-road), and tend to be tolerant of other people’s views
  8. Your answer:
    liberal
    ideological
    communist
    moderate


  9. The wishes or support of the people in a democracy, as expressed by their votes
  10. Your answer:
    political moderate
    political support
    mandate
    propaganda


  11. A person who believes that the government should actively and peacefully promote social reform within the existing social, economic, or political system
  12. Your answer:
    reactionary
    ideology
    capitalist
    liberal


  13. Those elements of a nation's culture that are related to government and politics
  14. Your answer:
    political ideology
    political culture
    political socialization
    enculturation


  15. The determination of public opinion through precise sampling and statistical methods (rather than using older, less precise methods)
  16. Your answer:
    straw polling
    random polling
    statistical socialization
    scientific polling


  17. This is the population that is to be studied in a poll
  18. Your answer:
    sample
    universe
    political culture
    culture


  19. The range of accuracy of the results of a random sample poll
  20. Your answer:
    range of accuracy
    margin of error
    sample
    scientific polling


  21. A person in favor of the status quo, who is cautious about new policies, and who generally feels that the government should stay out of the affairs of private citizens and businesses
  22. Your answer:
    moderate
    socialist
    radical
    conservative


  23. An organized pattern of looking at the political world; a systematic set of ideas that is used to justify a particular point of view
  24. Your answer:
    political socialization
    mandate
    political culture
    ideology


  25. Those people around us who have similar backgrounds and beliefs and may be near us in age
  26. Your answer:
    random sample
    political culture
    socialization
    peers


  27. Generally refers to people who hold traditional views, and oppose changes in society and/or government
  28. Your answer:
    right wing
    mandate
    left wing
    moderate


  29. An informal survey of public opinion
  30. Your answer:
    universe
    mandate
    straw poll
    random sample


  31. A sample chosen in such a way that every member of a group being polled has an equal chance of being selected
  32. Your answer:
    universe
    straw poll
    random sample
    scientific poll


  33. The likelihood that something will happen (in this case, through scientific polling)
  34. Your answer:
    universe
    sample
    scientific polling
    probability


  35. Someone who advocates a return to a previous government or state of affairs, and who may be willing to go to extremes (even violence) to attain this goal
  36. Your answer:
    conservative
    liberal
    radical
    reactionary


  37. In polling terms, a small group of people who accurately represent a 'universe'
  38. Your answer:
    political culture
    sample
    public opinion
    sample culture


  39. An organization of people with shared ideas and attitudes who attempt to influence public policy
  40. Your answer:
    random sample
    interest group
    political party
    sample


  41. An object or expression that is part of a nation's political culture and that represents an abstract idea such as "freedom," "democracy," or the country itself
  42. Your answer:
    random universe
    political symbol
    political culture
    random sample


  43. The term that is used to describe those people in society who generally favor change (and are against the status quo)
  44. Your answer:
    right wing
    conservative
    moderate
    left wing


  45. Conservatives favor this - keeping things the way they are at the present time
  46. Your answer:
    liberalism
    political symbols
    mandate
    status quo


  47. The combination of many individuals' expressed feelings about government and political issues
  48. Your answer:
    interest groups
    political socialization
    public opinion
    political culture



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