POL SCI 164A Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Dot-Probe Paradigm, Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act
27 Feb 2018
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Test people"s political knowledge, split into 3 groups (test on how developed their schema is) Note: not split along the a/s/e line, just split into theirs into thirds (aschematics, middle, schematics) Give them a bio of a representation with a party label and policy positions (mix of party consistent and inconsistent policies) Then a distractor task - vocab test. Ask to recognize the policy positions held by the representative (recall) Ask people to rate policy positions without a schema activated. Schematics do much better than chance (much more biased) This tells us that these schematics are probably not experts. L and h measured by (1) interest parties and elections (2) give them of political leader and ask them the party. Not measure directly with policy positions because that messes with the test. Recall schema development (1) aschematics: no idea what rep or dem means (2) schematics: broad category (ex.
