Amy is conducting a survey of dating attitudes and behaviors among young adults as part of her masters' thesis work. Amy distributes questionnaires to 200 randomly selected students enrolled in an introductory psychology course at her university. The 200 students constitute Amy's ________. The people to whom she assumes her results will generalize are termed the _______.
A) control group; population
B) experimental group; population
C) population; sample
D) sample; population

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The 200 students are the sample because they are the subset of the larger group being studied. The population is the larger group to whom Amy wants to generalize her findings.

Amy Is Conducting a Survey of Dating Attitudes and Behaviors