Dr. Gomez would like to know how many parents use spanking as a form of punishment. She knows she cannot solicit this information from every parent in the country, so she asks a subset of parents that she thinks are representative of all parents in the country. The collection of the data in this study is an example of using __________.

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Dr. Gomez would be utilizing a survey to collect her data from a representative sample. Other forms of data collection include naturalistic observation, ethnography, and psychophysiological methods, although all of these would be inappropriate in this example.

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