A Primary Is

question 81

Multiple Choice

A primary is

• A) a method for political parties to select their candidates for office whereby party members convene at local meetings.
• B) a method for political parties to select their candidates for office whereby people vote in an election.
• C) an entity that selects the president and vice president, consisting of 538 electors chosen from the states and the District of Columbia based on the election outcome within each state and proportioned according to state population.
• D) None of the above

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Definitions:

Autokinetic Effect Studies

Psychological experiments that investigate how people perceive a stationary point of light in a dark room as moving due to the lack of visual references.

Norms

Shared beliefs or rules within a group about how members should behave in a given context, which help to guide and regulate individual behavior and promote group cohesion.

Injunctive Norms

Socially accepted rules or standards that dictate the behaviors that are approved or disapproved of within a society or group.

Evaluative Component

Part of an attitude that involves making a judgment about the goodness or badness of an object, person, or event.