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Sampling techniques

People who take part in a psychological study are called participants. Normally, psychologists define a target population - a specific group of people they are interested in for their study. For example, this could be adolescents living with one parent, women who have given birth to twins, or students who moved from one country to another. Psychologists can rarely study an entire population, so they select a sample...

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