chapter 7

Question 1

Convenience sampling

Answer 1

Sampling only those individuals who are easiest to contact

Question 2

purposive sampling

Answer 2

used when you want to study certain kinds of people, so you only recruit those types of participants

Question 3

snowball sampling

Answer 3

participants(whose from purposive sampling) are asked to recommend other participants

Question 4

Quota sampling

Answer 4

researchers have a specific target number from a large group of numbers to turn into smaller groups

Question 5

Biased sample (unrepresentative sample)

Answer 5

not all members of a population have an equal probability of being included

Question 6

Unbiased sample (representative sample)

Answer 6

all members of the population have an equal probability of being included