Amy is conducting a survey of dating attitudes and behaviors among young adults as part of her master's 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 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, and the people whom Amy assumes her results will generalize to are the population. Therefore, the correct choices are D), sample; population. A) and B) are incorrect because they refer to experimental and control groups, which are not relevant to this scenario. C) is incorrect because it confuses the population with the sample.

Amy Is Conducting a Survey of Dating Attitudes and Behaviors