When Researchers Divide the Population of Interest in a Study

question 30

Multiple Choice

When researchers divide the population of interest in a study into groups and then arbitrarily choose participants from each group, they are using

• A) quota sampling.
• B) selective surveying.
• C) random sampling.
• D) stratified sampling.
• E) researcher samples.

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Definitions:

Job Involvement

The degree to which an individual is emotionally and psychologically engaged in their job.

Individual

An individual refers to a single human being as distinct from a group, class, or family.

Dedicated

Being committed and devoted to a task or purpose with a significant amount of effort and enthusiasm.

Job Enlargement

Increases task variety by combining into one job two or more tasks previously assigned to separate workers.