A researcher post flyers around the community to recruit families for his research. He desires a

sample size of 100 and after 2 days, has already recruited 50 African -American families.

Because 50% of the community population is African-American, he decides to discontinue
recruitment for this group, but continue recruiting participants of other ethnic groups. This
sampling method is known as __________ sampling.
Fill in the blanks with correct word


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Psychology

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Define and provide examples of descriptive, relational, and causal studies

What will be an ideal response?

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If we want to make comparisons between two groups that we know are different at the start of the experiment, the design to use is:

a. nonequivalent before-after. b. multiple time-series. c. ex post facto. d. interrupted time-series.

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A subset of cases selected from a larger population is a __________

a. control group b. target group c. treatment group d. sample

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