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17 Cards in this Set
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Agenda Setting
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Media Telling Audience What To Think ABOUT
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Consensus
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What Opinion Large Portion of Public Expresses
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Divided Opinion
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When Public Holdsd Different Attitudes/Opinions
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Fairness Doctrine
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Federal Communications Commission rule requiring radio and television to present controversial issues impartially
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Gender Gap
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Difference percentage between whow many women vote for the candidate and how many men
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Generational Effect
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Long-Lasting Effect of Events of Particular Time on Political Opinios of Those Who Came Into Political Age at that Time
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Lifestyle
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When Certain Attitudes Occur At Certain Chronological Times
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Media
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Channels of Mass Communication
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Opinion Leader
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One Who is Able To Influence Opinion of Other Through Position, Expertise, or Personality
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Opinion Poll
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Systematically Questioning a Small, Selected Group of Respondents Who "Represent" the Total Population
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Peer Group
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Group of members sharing commom social characteristics
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Political Socialization
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Process by which people acquire political beliefs and values
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Political Trust
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Degree to which individuals express trust in gov't, measures through survey questions
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Public Opinion
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Overall individual attitudes or beliefs shared by some portion of adult population
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Sampling Error
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The difference between sample's results and true result
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Socioeconomic Status
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Value assigned to person due to occupation/income
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Watergate Break-In
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1972 illegal entry into Democratic National Committee by officers of Richard Nixon's reelection campaign
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