Psychology 2800E Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Umber, Single Desk, N100

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2800E
• Professor: Doug Hazelwood

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Friday december 18 9am feb gym faculty of education building gym ( behind perth) we are section 001. Definitions & sampling methods (ch 9, p. 299-237) Prologue: who will we study: study everyone in group (this is called census ). All adults living in canada usually we cannot study all members of the group when it gets very large, b/c time and money are limited resources to researchers. So study a smaller sample of the group. Part 1: definitions: population: entire group that we want to learn about can consist of: Archived material (e. g,. all letters to gazette editor, all course evaluations at. Abstract things (eg outcome of an infinite number of coin tosses: sampling frame: reflects procedures that are used to identify members of population. Yellow- element: sampling methods, probability sampling: each member of population (sampling frame)has a known probability of being included in the sample. - produces representative samples ( similar to populations or sample frame)