Exam 9: Public Opinion

What are priming and framing? How are the two concepts alike? How are they different? Give an example of priming and an example of framing in hypothetical survey questions. How would these cognitive processes influence respondents' answers in your examples?

In statistical research, a ________ is the entire group in which a researcher is interested, such as all adults living in the United States.

As the education level of Americans has steadily increased since the 1950s, the level of public ignorance has ________.

Joe feels personally attached to the Republican Party despite important disagreements between the party's platform and his own issue attitudes. Joe's relationship to the Republican Party is consistent with the idea of ________.

Anuk likes ice cream better than cake, and cake better than pie. Her comparative enjoyment of ice cream, cake, and pie is a/an ________.