Validity Flashcards
What is internal validity
whether the study measured what is aimed to measure
What is face validity
does the study appear to measure what it aims to measure
what is construct validity
Does the test actually objectively measure what its supposed to
What is concurrent validity
where a test of piece of research gives the same results as another test or study
What is criterion validty / predictive validity
How measure predicts the value of another measure
What is external validity
Whether results can be genearlised
What is ecolgoical validity
How life like a piece of research is
What is population validity
whether you can resonably generalise the findings from your sample to a larger group of people
What is temporal validity
If results can be generalised to modern day behaviour
