PSYC 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nonprobability Sampling, Statistical Inference, Descriptive Statistics
28 Feb 2016
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Students use other students to get research results. Want your findings to apply to the larger group. Critical that when you pick your sample, that your sample has certain. Example: responses to abstract vs. representational art in introverts and extraverts. Self selection bias; when one for example is more satisfied in their marriage. Randomness refers to how you pick your people not to the outcome of the. Where treatment is highly needed this is where random sampling would be the. Concern about the generalizability of our stimulus materials. In lots of experiments in psych we think of our experiments of our samples but. Lecture 8 outline: recap: probability sampling, random sampling, random. * survey research vs. other descriptive research methods. 3 major survey techniques: face to face interviews, written surveys, phone surveys, nomothetic vs. idiographic approaches and the role of the participant. Idiographic in the context of an engaged relationship with that subject.
