The Personnel Manager of a Corporation Wants to Estimate, for One

question 4

Multiple Choice

The personnel manager of a corporation wants to estimate, for one year, the total number of days used for sick leave among all 116 plants in his firm. The 116 plants are divided into 30 "small" plants, 45 "medium" plants, and 41 "large" plants. He decides to randomly select 40 employees from each of the three size of plants. What kind of sampling does this illustrate?

• A)Systematic
• B)Stratified
• C)Cluster
• D)Random sampling

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Definitions:

Hippocampus

A major component of the brain in humans and other vertebrates, associated with memory forming, organizing, and storing.

Temporal Lobes

are regions of the cerebral cortex located beneath the lateral fissure on both cerebral hemispheres of the brain, involved in processing auditory information and encoding memory.

Memory Trace Decay

The theory that memory fades and disappears over time if not accessed and used, attributing forgetting to the deterioration of memory traces.

Proactive Interference

The phenomenon where older memories hinder the recall of newer memories.