Provide an Appropriate Response

question 19

Essay

Provide an appropriate response.
-A researcher obtains a sample of high school teachers in his school district by randomly selecting 10 high schools and interviewing all the teachers at each of these 10 schools. What kind of sampling is being used here? Will the resulting sample be a simple random sample of the population of teachers in the school district? Explain your thinking.

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Definitions:

Erikson

Refers to Erik Erikson, a developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on the psychological development of human beings, identifying eight stages of human development.

Behaviorist Theory

A theory of learning which states that behaviors are learned from the environment through the processes of conditioning.

Rewards and Punishments

Behavioral tools used to reinforce desired behaviors or diminish undesired ones, often employed in educational and developmental contexts.

Learning

A relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by making associations between behavior and events in the environment.