PSYC 005 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Small Appliance, Simple Random Sample, Convenience Sampling

• School: Pasadena City College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 005
• Professor: juliekiotas

Document Summary

In psychology, variables are important because it is usually used for testing research questions. A variable consists of quality or quality depending on people or situations. For example, a variable can be the height of students in a class. It is considered as a variable because not everyone"s height is the same. There is also quantitative variable that is quantity that is used to measure each individual. For example, a quantitative variable can be the number of siblings a person has. Another type of variable is categorical variable, this is a quality, such as a category that is label to each person. For example, a categorical variable can be a person"s nationality, occupation, and etc. Sampling is when a researchers use a population to study on a certain interest that they have. A population is taken from a group of people. For example, a population can be american teenagers, children with autism, and etc.