Redistricting to achieve political goals is called what?
a. reapportionment
b. gerrymandering
c. pork barrel
d. reallocation
ANS: B
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The use of body counts in Vietnam to gauge military effectiveness is an example of
a. problems of information. c. coordination problems. b. interservice rivalry. d. duplication activities.
Age could affect reaction time, as well as nicotine. How could the researcher have controlled for this potential extraneous variable?
a) by randomly selecting participants from the population b) by counterbalancing the order of stimulus presentation across participants c) by matching each participant in the experimental group with a participant of the same age in the control group d) by using a different dependent variable
Early defenders of judicial review contended that it makes the Constitution
a. irrelevant to modern issues. b. less important than the will of the people. c. subject to federal laws. d. subject to the whims of elected officials. e. supreme over the will of elected officials.
One of the following is a crucial aspect of empirical theory:
a. It meets the tenets of critical theory b. It deemphasizes parsimony c. It is not cumulative d. It leads to specific testable predictions