Katz Is Researching the Causes of Phobias

question 107

Multiple Choice

Katz is researching the causes of phobias. He puts an ad in a newspaper asking for people who have an intense, distressing fear of snakes to come and participate in his study. The major problem with this is

• A) the people who come may not have a phobia.
• B) his sample will be too small.
• C) he is not getting a representative sample.
• D) he doesn't know if people are telling the truth about their fears or not.

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