A Voter Who Uses a Personal Vote Cue Supports a Candidate

question 76

Multiple Choice

A voter who uses a personal vote cue supports a candidate because the candidate:

• A) captures the voter's own anger against the incumbent party.
• B) shares a personality characteristic with the voter.
• C) is similar to the voter in some way, such as in age, appearance, gender, or race.
• D) has provided the voter with assistance in the past.
• E) is an incumbent.

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Definitions:

Extinguished

In behavioral psychology, it refers to the gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response.

Deconditioned

A loss of physical fitness or undoing of the effects of conditioning, often as a result of inactivity or training cessation.

Social Learning

A theory that proposes people can learn new behaviors and attitudes through observation of others' actions and outcomes.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired; a response that is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.