Determining what motivates individuals to engage in prosocial behavior, such as community volunteering, is complex. To explore these personal experiences, a research team plans to use a self-report questionnaire. They intend to recruit young adults by posting an advertisement on popular social media platforms, thereby using a self-selected sampling technique.
Outline one weakness of using a self-selected sampling technique to obtain participants for this study.
644 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Research methods and techniques. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.