Define selective perception and explain its significance.
What will be an ideal response?
Selective perception is the phenomenon of filtering incoming information through personal values and interests. Its significance is that it reduces the ability of the media to shape public opinion since members of the public tend to seek out and pay attention to the media sources with which they already agree and tend to disbelieve sources with which they disagree.
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The Carter administration's approach to the Soviet Union
a. was to place that country at the center of American foreign policy. b. was largely the result of a unified view of that country by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. c. was to try to de-emphasize the Soviet-American relationship in foreign policy. d. met with American domestic attitudes that supported détente but were wary of growing Soviet power. e. Both options C and D are true.
A permanent committee that functions throughout the legislative session is a(n)
a. ad hoc committee. b. interim committee. c. joint committee. d. conference committee. e. standing committee.