validity

Question 1

what is validity?

Answer 1

how accurate something is

Question 2

what is internal validity?

Answer 2

is the research or measuring what they’re trying to measure?

Question 3

what is external validity?

Answer 3

is what the researcher tried to measure representative of the behaviours of the real world?

Question 4

what are the three types of external validity?

Answer 4

1, ecological validity = the extent to which the research setting represents the real life setting which the researchers are aiming to investigate
2, population validity = the extent to which the findings applied to groups of people other than the participants
3, temporal validity = the extent which the findings applied to other time periods

Question 5

how do you assess validity?

Answer 5

1, face validity = looking at something and making a judgement
2, content validity = seeing if something measures what’s supposed to
3, construct validity = same as content
4, predictive validity = seeing whether a score on a test predicts later behaviour
5, concurrent validity = comparing a new test to an already established test