Sample quiz

The entire set of individuals to which a study’s findings are to be generalized is the study’s ______.

• framework

• population

• elements

• sample

• single individual person who is being studied

If researchers intend to study students in an identified school they obtain a full listing of students from the registrar’s office. The students on the list are ______.

• elements

• unknown

• sampling units

• random

• not students

What is the sampling frame?

• the list of elements in the population

• the time frame during which sampling is done

• the group from which sampling is conducted

• the list of populations in a sample

• a catalogue that has samples of photo frames

_________ samples are required for generalizability.

• representative

• reductive

• specific

• completely inclusive

• non-generalizable

The most common type of convenience samples are ____________.

• college students

• convenience store employees

• elementary school children

• astronauts

• people named Fred and Wilma

Quota sampling is important because it ensures that the ____________ of the sample ________ the population.

• demographics; match

• demographics; do not match

• ice-cream preferences; match

• phone numbers; do not match

________ sampling is when you ask participants to suggest other participants.

• Snowball

• Hush-puppy

• Suggestibility

• Gas-lighting

• Random

Convenience sampling, quota sampling, and snowball sampling are all examples of ______ sampling.

• probability

• non-probability

• Weird

• unbiased

• music