The connection between the nation’s media and American politics has been shaped by which of the following?
a. tradition, politics, capitalism, and the need to preserve national security
b. technology, politics, the rights of a free press, and the need to preserve national security
c. politics, the rights of a free press, and the need to preserve national security
d. the rights of a free press, capitalism, and the tradition of printed media
b. technology, politics, the rights of a free press, and the need to preserve national security
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There is frequently a trade-off between increasing either internal validity or external validity in an experiment. Which of the following may weaken internal validity while strengthening external validity?
a. conducting the experiment in the students' high school rather than a university laboratory b. testing all participants at 10:00 a.m. c. using a standardized set of instructions that are given by a tape recording d. testing all participants in the same room
North Korea’s invasion of South Korea led to a major escalation of the Cold War because __________
a. it came just as the National Security Council forecast a Soviet plan for global domination, and called for a vast increase in the military budget b. it reminded Truman of Hitler moving into the Rhineland, leading the president to respond in a knee-jerk fashion. c. Secretary of State Dean Acheson had suggested that the U.S. would have to respond to trouble in Korea, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff planned accordingly d. it confirmed the worst American suspicions about Stalin’s expansionist ambitions
The primary argument of supply-side economic theory is that
a. too much demand for services will cause the supplier side to crash. b. there must be a supply of goods before there is a demand. c. high taxes take money out of the economy that would otherwise be invested in goods and services. d. high taxes give government the funds it needs to stimulate the economy. e. the capitalist system is self-destructive.
Efforts to regulate content on the Internet have been __________
a. generally opposed by Congress b. upheld by the Supreme Court c. enormously popular d. generally unsuccessful