Prison Inmate Inventory (PII) has been used to assess the likelihood of inmates attempting to escape and the potential for criminal recidivism upon release. A researcher decided to assess the ____80____ of the PII in order to see if the PII was able to accurately predict the potential for criminal recidivism in a large sample of prisoners in the United States. The sample of prisoners was selected using a ___81___ approach. Initially a(n) ___82___ was constructed that included a list of most of the state prisons in the United States. From that list, 30 prisons were randomly chosen. The next step included selecting 500 inmates from each of the selected prisons to participate in the study. In order to obtain 500 inmates from each prison, a ___83___ strategy was used. In each prison, an announcement about the research study was made during lunch time in the prison cafeteria, and the first 500 inmates who volunteered were selected for inclusion.

The PII was administered once to each of the inmates included in the sample. All participating inmates were then tracked upon their release from prison for a period of three years in order to assess the ___84___ of recidivism. During the three-year follow-up period, official state records of any new arrest, conviction, or return to prison were collected for each inmate in order to ___85___ recidivism. The study experienced a fair amount of ___86___, because 139 of the released inmates participating in the study absconded during the follow-up tracking period.

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a) content validity

b) criterion validity

c) external validity

d) internal validity

81.

a) multistage cluster sampling

b) stratified random sampling

c) simple random sampling

d) convenience sampling

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a) enumeration

b) experiment

c) sampling frame

d) survey

83.

a) multistage cluster sampling

b) stratified random sampling

c) simple random sampling

d) convenience sampling

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a) control variable

b) extraneous variable

c) independent variable

d) dependent variable

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a) control for

b) validate

c) aggregate

d) operationalize

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a) external validity

b) internal validity

c) attrition

d) reliability