Chapter 7

Question 1

A ____________ is a sample of every member of the
population

Answer 1

Census

Question 2

A ____________ is asmaller set of people or things taken
from the population

Answer 2

Sample

Question 3

A ____________ is an entire set of people or things of interest

Answer 3

Population

Question 4

______________ is when all members of the population have an
equal probability of inclusion

Answer 4

Unbiased sample

Question 5

A _____________ is when not all members of a population have an
equal probability of inclusion

Answer 5

Biased sample

Question 6

_______________ is recruiting participants from a specific
demographic

Answer 6

Purposive sampling

Question 7

______________ is when participants recommend other participants

Answer 7

Snowball sampling

Question 8

______________ is sampling a population based on preset
categorizations and targets

Answer 8

Quota sampling

Question 9

Simple random sampling increases __________.

Answer 9

External validity

Question 10

_____________ is a sample using a predetermined
system

Answer 10

Systematic sampling

Question 11

_______________ is randomly sample representative
clusters of participants

Answer 11

Cluster sampling

Question 12

___________ is a sample using sequential random samples

Answer 12

Multistage sampling

Question 13

______________ are used for organizing and summarizing the
properties of a data set

Answer 13

Descriptive statistics

Question 14

_____________ is random sampling using specific
predetermined characteristics

Answer 14

Stratified sampling

Question 15

The __________ is the most common score in a data set

Answer 15

Mode

Question 16

The ____________ is the value at the middlemost score of a
distribution

Answer 16

Median

Question 17

The ____________ is found by adding all the scores and then
dividing by the number of scores

Answer 17

Mean