Validity

Question 1

What is meant by the term validity ?

Answer 1

Does the research set out to measure what it was meant to measure. How trustworthy something is (procedure)

Question 2

What is Internal Validity ?

Answer 2

To look how behaviour was defined and measured within the study.

Question 3

What is external validity ?

Answer 3

Looks at factors outside the study and where we can generalise the findings of behaviour outside the study.

Question 4

What is face validity (internal) ?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

What is construct validity (internal) ?

Answer 5

Do measure relate to the assumed characteristics of what is assessed.

Question 6

What is concurrent validity (internal) ?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

What is criterion validity (internal) ?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

What is ecological validity (external) ?

Answer 8

Whether the study reflects those of real life situations. Study can be low, high or mundane realism.

Question 9

What is population validity (external) ?

Answer 9

Whether sample is representative of wider target population.