Ap Flashcards

5089441955	Public Opinion	What the public thinks about a particual,r issue or set of issies at any point in time	0
5089441956	Public Opinion Polls	Interviews or surveys sith samples of citizens that are used to estimate the feelings and beleifes of the entire population	1
5089441957	Straw Poll	Unscientific survey used to gauge public opinion on a variety of issues and poicies	2
5089441958	Sample	A subset of the whole population selected to be questioned for the purposes of prediction or gauging opinion	3
5089441959	Push Polls	Polls taken for the purpose of providing information on an opponent that would lead respondents to vote against that candidate	4
5089441960	Population	The entire group of people whose attitudes a researcher wishes to measure	5
5089441961	Random Sampling	A method of poll selection that gives each person in a group the same chance of being selected	6
5089441962	Stratified Sampling	A variation of random sampling; the population is divided into subgroups and weighted based on demographic characteristics of the national population	7
5089441963	Tracking Polls	Continuous surveys that enable a campaign or news organization to chart a candidate's daily rise or fall I support	8
5089441964	Exit Polls	Polls conducted as voters leave selected polling places on Election Day	9
5089441965	Margin of Error	A measure of the accuracy of a public opinion poll	10
5089441966	Political Socialization	The process through which individuals acquire their political beliefs and values	11