Dr Monroe Is Interested in Surveying College Students at Her

question 21

Multiple Choice

Dr. Monroe is interested in surveying college students at her university who are first generation college students. She contacts the registrar's office and finds out that there are 3500 first generation college students total. She wants to include 350 of those students in her sample. She then divided the population by the sample size and gets k = 10. She then picks a random number between 1 and 10 which is 8. This determines that every 8^th person in the population will be included in the sample. What type of sampling method is this?

• A) cluster sampling.
• B) stratified sampling
• C) random sampling
• D) systematic sampling

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Definitions:

Social Referencing

Seeking information from caregivers about how to interpret unfamiliar or ambiguous events by observing their emotional expressions and reactions.

Operational Reasoning

The stage of cognitive development, as identified by Piaget, in which children develop the ability to think logically about abstract concepts and concrete events.

Metacognition

The awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes, often referred to as "thinking about thinking."

Hypothetical-Deductive Reasoning

A method of problem-solving that involves forming hypotheses and deducing their implications to see if they match with real-world facts.