PSYC 300 Chp 6 Quiz

Which of the following best describes snowball sampling?

A technique in which some participants are found in the population and they then lead the researcher to other participants in the population.

Which of the following types of samples is most likely to result in sampling bias?

Convenience sampling

In scientific research, sampling refers to which of the following?

Selecting which people to study

A town in West Virginia needs to choose a jury for a trial. They create slips of paper with the names of each of the adults in the county and place the slips in a large box. They then draw twelve names from the box. What sampling method has been used?

Simple random sampling

Which of the following represents the major disadvantage of snowball sampling?

There is a likelihood of sampling bias.

A telephone book from a large city could be considered

a sampling frame.

The U.S. Census is known as a census because

it includes the entire U.S. population.

In comparison to interviews, questionnaires are

less likely to be influenced by the presence of the researcher.

The entire group of people the researcher is interested in learning about is known as the __________, whereas the group of people that actually participate in the research is known as the __________.

population; sample

Strata refer to

subgroups of a larger population.