Virtually All Studies Done in Psychology Rely on Studying People

question 66

Multiple Choice

Virtually all studies done in psychology rely on studying people representative of a larger group. The groups of people who participate in these studies are most commonly known as

• A) samples
• B) populations
• C) mesosystems
• D) independent variables

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