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Reliability and Validity Flashcards

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What is validity?

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Measuring what it is supposed to measure.

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Concurrent validity

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Highly and positively correlated with another construct measuring the same thing.

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Predictive validity

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Predicts the behaviour it is theoretically linked to.

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Construct validity

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Apropriate for construct being measured based on operational definition.

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Convergent validity

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Positive correlation between measures of the same construct.

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Difference between concurrent and convergent validity?

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Concurrent refers to multiple constructs and convergent looks at two ways of measuring same construct.

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Divergent validity

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No relationship between measurements of different constructs.

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External validity

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Generalisability of findings.

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4 threats to generalisability

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  1. Selection Bias
  2. Volunteer Bias
  3. Participant characteristics
  4. Cross-species generalisations
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What is the novelty effect?

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Limiting generalisability due to novel setting. eg lab vs real world

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What is the practice affect?

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Participants improve through the repetition required in some studies.

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What is the fatigure affect?

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Results inaccurate as participants get tired after repetition in a study.

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What is sensitisation?

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An enhanced response to stimuli that has been presented repeatedly.

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How does time of measurement affect a study?

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Different time of day may illicit a different response eg. morning vs afternoon

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What is internal validity?

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Limited to experimental design - factors that allow for interpretation of results

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What are confounding variables?

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Other influences on a study that systematically influence results

17
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Extraneous variables

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Environmental conditions that may or may not impact results.

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What are the threats to external and internal validity?

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Experimenter bias
Demand characteristics
Participant reactivity - hawthorne affect

19
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What is reliability?

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Consistency in a measurement

20
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Sources of errors

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Observer
Environmental changes
Participant changes

21
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3 forms of external reliability

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  1. Test-retest
  2. Parallel forms
  3. Inter-rater reliability
22
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What is parallel forms reliability?

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Two different tests asking the same thing

23
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What is internal reliability?

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Assessing the same construct using different measures

24
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Split half reliability

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Splits the scale into 2 random sets and scores on both should be roughly the same.

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K-R Kuder-Richardson 20

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Looks at all possible correlations and takes the average

26
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Cronbach’s Alpha

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Looks at correlations between items in a measure

27
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Standardisation involves…..

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Same delivery
same instructions
same scoring

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