Amy is conducting a survey of dating attitudes and behaviours 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 a sample of the population that Amy is studying, which is young adults' dating attitudes and behaviors. The population refers to the larger group of interest, and in this case, it would include all young adults, not just those enrolled in an introductory psychology course at Amy's university. Therefore, the people to whom Amy assumes her results will generalize are the population. A and B are incorrect because they refer to control and experimental groups, which are terms used in experimental research, not survey research. C is incorrect because it confuses the sample with the population.

Amy Is Conducting a Survey of Dating Attitudes and Behaviours