Which of the following methods best allows a sports psychologist to obtain the views of members of a climbing club who volunteer after seeing a notice: rand...

Assessment: Psychology 9218 | Paper 1 Mock 01 | Cognition and behaviour Subject: Psychology - 9218

Question 1 Report

Which of the following methods best allows a sports psychologist to obtain the views of members of a climbing club who volunteer after seeing a notice: random sampling, opportunity sampling or stratified sampling?

(a) Name the sampling method used. [1]
(b) Explain one weakness of this method for the researcher’s study. [2]

Answer Details

(a) Opportunity sampling / volunteer sampling [1] (b) The sample may contain people who are especially interested in the topic / have strong views [1] so it may not represent all climbing-club members and findings may not generalise [1]

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