Across
- 2. A random sample aims at getting rid of ___, but it is not always successful
- 5. Methods of selecting participants for a study where each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected. This can be done with a random number generator or by pulling names out of a hat.
- 7. Participants are selected based on naturally occurring groups
- 8. it may be ___ to access research participants in a snowball sample
- 9. From a random sample, it is easier to generalize our ____ to the larger population
- 11. a sample which is 30% male and 70% female which is the composition of your high school's population is an example of a ___ sample
- 12. A benefit of a volunteer sample is that it is__
- 13. If a researcher does a study at your school and asks for volunteers, but only psychology students sign up to take part, what is the problem of this study?
Down
- 1. It is difficult to make _____ in a volunteer sample
- 3. The sample matches the make-up of the population. Participants from within various subgroups of the population are randomly selected.
- 4. Participants recruit other participants for a study.
- 6. Participants volunteer - usually in response to an advertisement in the local community or over the Internet.
- 10. The researchers coined the acronym WEIRD to describe the population studied by psychologists: Western Educated _____ Rich Democratic.