The Process by Which an Individual Acquires Values, Beliefs, and Opinions

question 38

Multiple Choice

The process by which an individual acquires values, beliefs, and opinions about politics is called ______________.

• A) indoctrination
• B) political branding
• C) partisan molding
• D) political socialization
• E) political demeanor

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Definitions:

Square Feet

A unit of area measurement equivalent to the area of a square with sides of one foot in length.

Quasilinear Preferences

Preferences where utility is linear in one argument, usually money, allowing for easy analysis of changes in wealth while other goods are evaluated non-linearly.

Homothetic

Pertaining to a class of production functions or utility functions where equal proportionate changes in inputs result in equal proportionate changes in output.

Utility Function

An economic tool used to encode a consumer's preference orderings over a set of alternatives into a real-valued function. (Duplicate rephrase)