Usefulness Flashcards

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What is usefulness?

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This is to what extent can the study relate to everyday life, as the more in related the more in becomes useful.

The extent to which something is useful is debating how valid the finding were

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Advantages of usefulness?

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  1. Improves and benefits society
  2. Helps to understand social behavior
  3. Enhances the study due to so much usefulness as it can actually lead to a change in perspective of certain humans
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Disadvantages of usefulness

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Ethics.
In order for a study to become useful it may sometimes have to conduct unethical procedures

Ecological validity
Findings may prove their own validity of usefulness however if conducted in an artificial environment it shall not be useful to the real world

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