Validity

Question 1

What are the three types of external validity and what are they?

Answer 1

1) Ecological validity = Finding that can be generalised beyond the settings of the study to other real life settings

2) Population validity = Finding that can be generalised beyond same beyond target population

3) Temporal validity = Extent which findings remain over time and can be generalised to other time periods

Question 2

What are the two types of internal validity?

Answer 2

1) Face validity
2) Concurrent validity

Question 3

How to conduct face validity

Answer 3

• Independent psychologist in the same field looks at experimental conditions to see is they look like they measure what to intend
• If the research says yes it has a face validity