Exam 8: Selection and Assignment of Participants

Samples are the entire group of individuals in which you are interested in studying.

When two populations overlap greatly on a dependent variable, they are said to have an)________ effect size.

In John's study, he knows that each participant had an equal probability of being placed into each of his conditions.John must have used________ .

Aaron has just finished collecting data for his study.He has a total of 85 participants.The number of participants in his study is known as the________ .

Studies conducted at most universities that use General Psychology students employ which nonprobability sampling procedure?

Betsy has begun work on a research project.She has decided to recruit participants from General Psychology classes.However, she plans to make sure that her sample matches the university population in terms of ethnicity i.e., 53% should be Caucasian, 25% should be African American, & 22% should be Hispanic American).Betsy is planning to use which nonprobability sampling procedure?

The number of individuals that are selected to participate or that participate in a study is known as the ________________.

Sampling procedures with replacement are preferred to sampling procedures without replacement.

The entire group of individuals in which you are interested in studying is called the________ .

The main three types of probability sampling procedures include: simple, cluster, and stratified.

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is indeed false is known as power.

According to the text ________is to nonprobability sampling as________ is to probability sampling.

There is no known relationship between the sample size of a study and the ability of statistical tests to determine an effect.

Populations are the entire group of individuals in which you are interested in studying.

Since it is not always possible to study an entire population of individuals, researchers will typically use an)________ .

Random assignment is another name for random sampling.

Linda is conducting a survey to evaluate the eating habits of customers at fast food restaurants.She knows that people eat at the restaurant for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.Therefore, she plans to randomly sample participants from each of these groups.This process is known as________ probability sampling.

Which of the following is a type of probability sampling procedure?

With nonprobability sampling, a researcher is more likely to get a biased sample.

By using ________, each selection in a study has exactly the same probability of being selected for participation.