[POL 170] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (41 pages long!)
29 Nov 2016
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Developmental psych, social psych, personality psych, cognitive neuroscience. Different substantive question: information processing to explain something about politics. Why people behave the way they do, why they vote the way they do, if they vote, why candidates behave the way they do, why they show certain appeals in their ads, biases, interest in politics. The idea that journalists are there to tell us about what"s going on in politics. Theory: general explanations that will help us understand specific cases and help us predict future cases. General explanation applicable to specific and future cases. Iv = thing that changes, see if change in iv results in change in dv. Chuck norris is dv, support for huckabee is iv -- if chuck norris is present in an add, support for huckabee will increase. If x is (present/not present), y will (increase/decrease) Political science in general relies on a lot of different research designs, including:
