VALIDITY

Question 1

VALIDITY

Answer 1

Measuring what is claimed to be measured

Question 2

INTERNAL VALIDITY

Answer 2

• Concerns with what goes on in the study
• Whether the IV produced the change in the DV or was there a confounding variable?
• Whether researcher tested what they intended to test
• Whether or not study had or lacked mundane realism

Question 3

EXTERNAL VALIDITY

Answer 3

• Extent to which you generalise findings of a study to other situations
• External is affected by the internal
• Where was the research conducted
• Who are studied
• Historical period

Question 4

FACE VALIDITY

Answer 4

Does the test look like it would produce Valid results, concerns external validity.

Question 5

CONCURRENT VALIDITY

Answer 5

Establishing external validity by comparing an existing test or questionnaire with the one you are interested in

Question 6

PREDICTIVE VALIDITY

Answer 6

Whether the scores on a test predict what you would expect them to predict
Correlating the results on a test with some other example of the behaviour that is being tested

Question 7

CONTENT VALIDITY

Answer 7

Aims to demonstrate that the content of a test/measurement represents the area of interest.
Concerns internal Validity.
Whether your method of measuring is measuring what you intent to measure

Question 8

CONSTRUCT VALIDITY

Answer 8

Demonstrating the extent to which performance on the test measures an identified underlying construct (theory).
Concerns internal validity

Question 9

THREATS TO INTERNAL VALIDITY

Answer 9

• Participant Reactivity
  (Countered with: Single blind, Isolating p’s)
• Researcher Bias
  (Countered with: Standardising, Double blind design)
  -Experimental Design Issue
  (Countered with: Matched pairs, Counter balancing)
• Situational Variables
  (Countered with: Control lab experiments)