Question

Amy is conducting a survey of dating attitudes and behaviors among young adults as part of her masters' thesis work. Amy distributes questionnaires to 200 randomly selected students enrolled in an introductory psychology course at her university. The 200 students constitute Amy's:_______. The people whom she assumes her results will generalize are termed the:_________.
A. control group; population
B. experimental group; population
C. population; sample
D. sample: population

Answer 1

Answer:

D. sample: population                                                      

Explanation:

Sample: In psychological research, the term sample is defined as a particular group of items, people, or objects that are being taken-out from a specifically large population for measurement. A research sample should be considered as representative to a specific population from where it has been taken out so that a researcher can generalize his or her findings from the sample related to the population considered as a whole.

Population: In psychological research, the term population refers to a large collection of objects or individuals which form a basis of a scientific study or query. It is also referred to as a well-defined collection of specific objects or individuals that possesses familiar characteristics.

In the question above, the given statement represents the sample and the population.