Political Science Chapter 2 Questions

I would rather study how fast paint dries

Human rights are

Open to debate

A common element in the different conceptions of social justic is that

opportunities, resources, and rights should be distributed equitably

The social contract involves

Freedom and authority

The conception of social justice that invokes the veil of ignorance is

Rawl’s theory

When humans think slowly, they

use cognitive skills to make decisions

In politics, rational actors

act strategically to obtain their goals

In making decisions, humans

often consider the interests of themselves and others

When we make predictions about human behavior, we are stating

what an individual is likely to do

A central goal of empirical political research is to

make predictions about human behavior

Political scientists are better able to make predictions if

they have lots of data

Motivated Reasoning is

the tendency to reject invonvenient evidence

A game is a

set of rules, choices, and decisions

In the ultimatum game, the most important rule involves

the formula for distributing the money

In any game, one would expect that decisions will vary

as the situation varies