Key Words

Question 1

What is ecological validity?
Give an example.

Answer 1

How realistic a study is to real life.
-Peterson and Peterson trigram wouldn’t be done on a daily basis and therefore has a low ecological validity.

Question 2

What is internal validity?

Answer 2

How accurate the study measures what is aims to measures.

Question 3

What is external validity?
Give an example.

Answer 3

How accurately results can be applied to other people
-Clive wearing has less external validity since it is a rare case of retrograde amnesia.

Question 4

What is an extraneous variable?

Answer 4

Something that affects the dependent variable that isn’t the independent variable

Question 5

What are demand characteristics?

Answer 5

When a participant can guess the aims of the study and so works to help the researcher for works against the researcher so results are not valid.

Question 6

What is a confounding variable?

Answer 6

Something that isn’t the IV that affects the DV

Question 7

what is construct validity?

Answer 7

measured complex behaviour in a way that’s too simplistic

Question 8

What is reliability?

Answer 8

How consistent a study or measuring device is

Question 9

Validity

Answer 9

Does a study measure what it aims to measure?

Question 10

What is population validity?

Answer 10

Refers to the extent to which the findings can be generalised to other populations

Question 11

What is face (surface) validity?

Answer 11

Refers to the extent to which A measure appears on the surface to measure what it is supposed to measure.

Question 12

What is predictive validity?

Answer 12

Refers to a measurements ability to predict scores on another related measurement