Case study
What was the name of our experiment?
Stanford Prison Experiment
What is population?
A certain number of individuals.
What is another name for Opportunity Sampling?
Convenience sampling
What experiment uses a volunteer sample?
Stanford prison experiment.
Is random sampling a type of probability or non-probability sampling?
probability
What is the DV of the Stanford Prison Experiment?
What is another name for population in an experiment?
Participants.
What could be a possible problem with Opportunity Sampling?
can produce a biased sample as it is easy for the researcher to choose people from their own social and cultural group.
What is volunteer sampling?
Participants self-select to become part of a study.
Describe random sampling.
subset of individuals chosen from a larger set in which a subset of individuals are chosen randomly, all with the same probability.
What is the IV of the Stanford Prison Experiment?
the random assignment of roles as either prison- guard or prisoner.
How is population used in an experiment?
Used to obtain data.
What is a possible advantage of Opportunity sampling?
- quick
-easy
-cheap
Which type of sampling is volunteer sampling, probability or non-probability?
non-probability
best method of selecting your sample from the population of interest. The advantages are that your sample should represent the target population and eliminate sampling bias.