Which of the following is an example of selective attention?
A) Nora decided to only watch the first presidential debate because any additional debates would be the same.
B) Raja decided not to vote this year because he didn't like any of the candidates.
C) Lydia refuses to listen to any news about Democratic candidates because she only votes for Republicans.
D) Brianna noticed that the radio reported on the president's trip to South Africa, but the cable news channel did not.
E) ?Sun-Jun knows it's important to listen to both candidates before making his voting choice.
C
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Collective Action Solutions have a serious inherent problem that has yet to be solved by international organizations. Select two of these inherent problems:
a. Only small winning coalition organizations can solve collective action problems using edicts. b. Large winning coalition members always get the organization going but fail to include small winning coalition states. c. Pacific doves free ride or hawks don’t allow pacific doves to participate in the agreement. d. Free riding will take place or the agreement is so shallow that no one needs to cheat.
The Iron Law of oligarchy contends that
a. all organizations have clear goals. b. all organizations have equal influence on congressional representatives. c. all organizations have elites. d. all organizations have an equal impact.
Which of the following is true about Internet polls?
a. They are a reliable source of information because they reach thousands of people. b. They are notoriously unreliable because the sample consists of people who choose to answer the survey, sometimes more than once. c. They have been used accurately and consistently since 1979 to predict election outcomes. d. They are the preferred method used by most professional research firms today. e. They are inherently biased against the religious right because churchgoers are less likely to use computers.
Suppose you are examining the relationship between support for social welfare and income, and you believe this relationship might be different for whites than it is for African Americans. In this case, the control variable would be:
A. support for social welfare B. income C. race