PSYC 466 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Convenience Sampling, Sexual Arousal, Meta-Analysis
7 Sep 2016
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The scientific study of human relationships is quite a new endeavor; it began in earnest in the 1960s and is less well-known and perhaps less appreciated than most other sciences. It has made tremendous strides in the last 50 years. Family scholars, psychologists, sociologists, communication researchers, and neuroscientists now examine varied types of intimate relationships. Often using diverse samples of people from all walks of life and from around the world. Often studying them over long periods of time. Often following them in their natural settings using sophisticated technology developing a question. Some studies seek to describe events as they naturally occur, while other studies strive to establish the causal connections between events that determine which causes have what consequences obtaining participants. Convenience sample: anyone who is readily available; used more often but there is always a danger that these samples will differ in important ways from other samples that are more representative.
