Reliability and validity Flashcards

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What does reliability refer to?

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How consistently it measures

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What are some factors that can affect the reliability of research?

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Conditions of testing
Interpretations
Standardisation
Sample

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What are conditions of testing?

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Is there anything in the environment that will affect participants

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What does interpretation refer to?

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How participants interperet different questions/behaviour (are there any inconsistency)

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What is standardisation?

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Are all participants doing the same thing?

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How does sample impact reliability?

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Potential impact of participant variables

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What is external reliability?

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does the method produce the same results each time the test is carried out

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What is the test retest method?

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Administering the same test twice to see if the same results are obtained

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What is inter rater reliability?

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Two researchers will observe the behaviour independantly and compare data after

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What is internal reliability often assosiated with?

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measures such as attitude scales or personality tests

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What is the split half method?

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Splitting a test into two having the same participant do both halves

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What makes a test valid?

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If it measures what it claims to measure

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What is internal validity?

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Whether a studys results were really due to the variables the researcher suggest were tested by their methodology

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What is external validity?

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The extent to which the results of a study can be generalised beyond the study

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What is population validity?

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Can we generalise from this sample to a wider group

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What is ecological validity?

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Can we generalise from the set of environmental conditions created by the researcher to other environmental to other environmental conditions

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What is experimenter bias?

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Experimenters personal views influence evaluation

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What are individual differences?

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Key aspects of a persons life outside the experiment that can influence results

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What are order effects?

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The order in which the tasks are carried out skew results

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What are demand characteristics?

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When participants alter their behaviour based onn what they think the researcher wants

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What is face validity?

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Does something look like it will measure what it is supposed to measure

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What is construct validity?

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Do the measures relate to the assumed characteristics of what is being assesed

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What is concurrent validity?

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When a test correlates well with a measure that has previously been validated

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What is criterion validity?

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The extent to which a measure can predict the performance or behaviour of the measured thing

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What is external validity?
Whether the findings of the study can be generalised beyond the context of the study
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What is population validity?
The extent to which findings can be generalised to other populations of people
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What is ecological validity?
The extent to which the findings can be generalised beyond the present situation