Untitled Flashcard Set

Target population — The specific group of people a researcher is interested in studying.
Sample — A smaller group selected from the target population to represent it in a study.
Population validity — The extent to which a sample's findings can be generalized to the target population.
Opportunity sampling — Selecting participants based on their availability (e.g., whoever is nearby or easy to access).
Random sampling — A sampling method where every member of the target population has an equal chance of being selected.
Self-selected sampling — Participants volunteer to take part, usually in response to an advertisement.
Snowball sampling — Participants recruit other participants from their own networks who share the same traits.
Stratified sampling — Random selection of participants from subgroups (strata) of the population, proportional to each subgroup's size in the population.
Pre-registration — Publicly declaring and documenting a study's hypotheses, design, and analysis plan before data collection begins.
Pilot interview — A small-scale practice run of an interview, done before the main study, to test and refine the questions.
Positionality — Acknowledging how a researcher's own social and cultural identity influences their access to participants and interpretation of data.