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Question 1

population

Answer 1

the research population, the group of interest to study

Question 2

sample

Answer 2

The subset of the population

Question 3

convenience sampling

Answer 3

selected using the quickest and easiest means possible, people who are readily available from the population - volunteers

Question 4

random sampling

Answer 4

when every member of the population has an equal chance of being selected for the sample - drawing names

Question 5

Stratified sampling

Answer 5

population is divided into groups based upon relevant characteristics

selected from each group in proportion to how they appear in the population

• percentage of how much they are in the population

Question 6

allocation

Answer 6

assigning participants to conditions in the experiment

Question 7

random allocation

Answer 7

each member has equal chance of being assigned to each condition - flipping a coin

Question 8

Extraneous variables:

Answer 8

Any variable that is not the independent that may affect research

Question 9

Confounding variables:

Answer 9

Variables that affect results apart from the independent variable

Question 10

what are confounding variables

Answer 10

an extraneous variable that has not been controlled

a type of variable that cannot be controlled for

Question 11

confounding / extraneous variables

Answer 11

all confounding variables are extraneous variables, not all extraneous variables are confounding