To Conduct a Survey on Current Political Science Majors, a Researcher

question 41

Multiple Choice

To conduct a survey on current political science majors, a researcher gets a list of all students who have declared a political science major from the registrar from which a sample will be drawn. This list is known as what?

• A) A sample
• B) A population
• C) A target population
• D) An aggregation
• E) A sampling frame

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Definitions:

Civil Commitment

A legal process through which an individual with severe mental illness can be mandated to undergo treatment or hospitalization.

M'Naghten Rule

A legal standard used to determine whether a defendant was insane at the time they committed a crime, focusing on whether they understood the nature of their act or knew right from wrong.

Irresistible Impulse Test

A legal test for insanity that holds people to be insane at the time they committed a crime if they were driven to do so by an uncontrollable “fit of passion.”

Durham Test

A legal test for insanity that holds people to be insane at the time they committed a crime if their act was the result of a mental disorder or defect.