Vocab

Question 1

Define Artificiality situation

Answer 1

Unlikely to occur in real life so there isn’t any validity.

Question 2

Define Bidirectional ambiguity

Answer 2

Each variable can affect the other (coincidentally though)
- can’t tell if x effects y or vice versa

Question 3

Define ecological validity

Answer 3

Experimental environment and how much it influences behaviour.

Question 4

Define mundane realism

Answer 4

Similarity of experiment to real life.

Question 5

Define ordinal data

Answer 5

Ranked data

Question 6

define intervening variables

Answer 6

Variables that contribute to the reason for the results of the experiment.