Research methods - validity

Question 1

What is internal validity?

Answer 1

Reducing extraneous and confounding variables such as demand characteristics, bias, lying, participant variables and situational variables.

Question 2

What is face validity?

Answer 2

The measure appears to measure what it is supposed to measure.

Question 3

What is concurrent validity?

Answer 3

The measure gets the same results when compared to the results of another established measures.

Question 4

What is ecological validity?

Answer 4

The findings of the study can be generalised to everyday life.

Question 5

What is temporal validity?

Answer 5

The findings of the study can be generalised from one time period to another.