A Researcher Compared the Recidivism Rates of Drug Abusers Who

question 86

Multiple Choice

A researcher compared the recidivism rates of drug abusers who were given probation with those who were sentenced to prison and discovered that the recidivism rates were highest for those sentenced to prison. What potential error is reflected by this conclusion?

• A) internal validity
• B) statistical conclusion validity
• C) construct validity
• D) external validity

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Structuralism

An early school of psychology that sought to analyze the adult mind in terms of the simplest definable components and then to find the way in which these components fit together in complex forms.

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