When psychologists conduct a study, the group of participants chosen for the study is referred to as the?

When psychologists conduct a study, the group of participants chosen for the study is referred to as the subject. The subject could be a group of people or a single individual.  

EXPLANATION:  

When doing or conducting research, psychologist usually includes a group of participants of a single individual as the subject of the study or research. Psychologists usually make a list of requirements about the subject needed for the research. For example, if a psychologist wants to analyze the behavior of student age 17-19, a group of participants age 17-19 is chosen. Yet, if a psychologist wants to conduct research about adult behavior in the workplace, a group of workers will be chosen.  

Psychologists also make research designs based on the study that they want to conduct. For example:

•Retrospective cohort study: where subjects are chosen first, then data are collected.

•Prospective cohort study: where subjects are recruited before the proposed effects are occurred or administrated.  

•Cross-sectional study: where the subjects are taken from a population or sample on all proposed measures in time.  

•Longitudinal study: subjects are chosen and studied at multiple time.  

Psychologists also choose whether they want to conduct a qualitative or quantitative study. If they want to conduct a qualitative study, the results or findings are presented in sentences, not statistical or other mathematical methods. Yet, if they want to conduct a quantitative study, the findings or results will be in the form of mathematical modelling and statistical inference or statistical estimation.  

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If you’re interested in learning more about this topic, we recommend you to also take a look at the following questions:

1.The approach to psychology views the mind as an active and aware problem-solving system. this view contrasts with the approach to psychology, which focuses on an organism's visible interactions with the environment  

2.Neuroscience studies are based on the approaches to psychology  

KEYWORDS: subject in psychology, a group of participants, subject,  

Subject: Social Studies

Class: College  

Sub-chapter: Psychology research  

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answer:

d. because dr. laguardia selected a widely used measure, his study generalizes to has strong external validity. external validity has limited external validity. other applications of this measure.

the widely used measure that he applied to his experiment was the benton facial recognition test. it employed on to football players and as result, only players who suffered brain concussions did not pas this test. and although it has an external validity, it is limited because it isn't general to apply to other population.