Explain what is meant by a 'sample', using an example from a core study from the biological approach.

Mark scheme

Marking points from the official mark scheme (Oct/Nov 2019). The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.

1. [2] 1 mark for a definition
2. 1 mark for example from a biological core study
3. The people (or animals/sources) from a population who become the participants/ are used in the study/are used to generalise from;
4. e.g.: Canli et al. - the 10 right-handed women whose brains were scanned;
5. Dement and Kleitman – the nine adult participants who slept in the lab;
6. Schachter and Singer – the 184 male students whose responses to injections were observed;