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Suppose you want to conduct a survey of the attitude of psychology graduate students studying clinical psychology toward psychoanalytic methods of psychotherapy. One approach would be to contact every psychology graduate student you know and ask them to fill out a questionnaire about it. a) What kind of sampling method is this? b) What is a major limitation of this kind of approach?

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Suppose you want to conduct a survery of the attitude of psychology graduate students studying clinical psychology toward psychoanalytic methods of psychotherapy. One approach would be to contact every psychology graduate student you know and ask them to fill out a questionnaire about it. a) What kind of sampling method is this? b) What is a major limitation of this kind of approach?

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