VALIDITY

Question 1

Validity

Answer 1

if we intended to measure what we measured.

Question 2

internal validity

Answer 2

questions the cause and effect relationship between the change the observer made to the independent variable and the observed change which is the dependent variable.
- include social desirability, investigator effects, demand characteristics

Question 3

external validity

Answer 3

questions if the findings of the study can be generalised beyond the study.

Question 4

ecological validity

Answer 4

• the extent to which the findings of the study can be generalised to any other alternative environment.

Question 5

mundane realism

Answer 5

the extent to which the task or situations used in the experiment are similar to what we experience in real world.

Question 6

population validity

Answer 6

the extent to which a sample is representative of the target population

Question 7

temporal validity

Answer 7

the extent to which the findings of study can be generalised to other time periods.

Question 8

assessing reliablity

Answer 8

face validity and criterion validity further divided into concurrent validity and predictive validity

Question 9

face validity

Answer 9

if the test appears to measure what its claiming to measure.

Question 10

concurrent validity

Answer 10

the extent to which the data from the newly created test is similar to an established test of the same variable conducted at the same time.
- high concurrent validity if correlation is 0.8