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Self-selected sampling — OCR GCSE Psychology Definition

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GCSE Psychology · key term

Self-selected sampling

Definition

A sampling method in which people volunteer to participate, usually by responding to an advertisement or invitation.

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OCR GCSE Psychology · J203

Paper 1, Paper 2

In self-selected sampling, people choose to join a study, usually after seeing an advertisement or invitation. A researcher could advertise the college study on a notice board and ask interested students to get in touch.
Revise: Populations and Sampling

OCR Psychology past papers

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Generalisability
Opportunity sampling
Random sampling
Representativeness
Sample

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