The Inside Game of Interest Group Activity Involves

question 30

Multiple Choice

The inside game of interest group activity involves

• A) efforts to mobilize public opinion, voters, and important contributors in order to place pressure on officials.
• B) indirect methods of bringing pressure to bear on both elected and appointed officials.
• C) the direct contact of interest group representatives and government officials.
• D) organizing influential people in a voting district in order to turn out the vote for a particular candidate.
• E) efforts of outreach and to recruit new members.

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Definitions:

True Experimental Design

A research design that includes random assignment of participants to conditions and manipulation of an independent variable to determine its effect on a dependent variable.

Independent Variable

The variable in an experiment that is manipulated or changed by the researcher to observe its effect on the dependent variable.

Dependent Variable

The outcome variable in an experiment or study whose changes are dependent on manipulations made to the independent variable(s).

Type II Error

The error that occurs when a statistical test fails to reject a false null hypothesis—essentially, a false negative.