In Election Years, the Polls That Are Conducted by Such

question 51

True/False

In election years, the polls that are conducted by such companies as Gallup and Harris typically employ stratified random sampling to reduce the number of people that will need to be surveyed.

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Definitions:

Defense Mechanism

Psychological strategies brought into play by individuals or the ego to cope with reality and to maintain self-image by reducing anxiety arising from unacceptable thoughts or feelings.

Repression

A psychological process in which traumatic memories are buried in the unconscious.

Freud

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis, a method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

Defense Mechanism

Unconscious psychological strategies brought into play by individuals to protect themselves from anxiety or to provide a refuge from a situation with which they cannot currently cope.