Validity

Question 1

What is validity

Answer 1

Extent to which a study or test measured what it intended to measure

Question 2

2 type of validity

Answer 2

External and internal

Question 3

What is external vaildity

Answer 3

To what extent the findings and conclusions of the study can be applied beyond the study

Question 4

3 types of external validity

Answer 4

• population
• ecological
• temporal

Question 5

Population vaildity

Answer 5

The what extent the findings can be generalised to other groups of people

Question 6

Ecological validity

Answer 6

To what extent findings can be generalised to other situations outside of the research

Question 7

Temporal validity

Answer 7

Generalising findings of a study to other historical periods

Question 8

What is internal validity

Answer 8

Extent to which n observed effect was de to the independant variable rather than other factors

Question 9

What is face validity

Answer 9

Does the test look, ‘on the face of it’, as if it measures what it claims to measures

Question 10

What is concurrent validity

Answer 10

Ptps given alternate test that has already been established as valid and a new test, 2 sets of scores are obtained
- compared and if strong positive correlation suggests test is valid