Validity Flashcards
1
Q
What is face validity?
A
The research looks like it intends to measure what it’s supposed to at face value.
2
Q
What is concurrent validity?
A
A test measuring the same behaviour gets the same results.
3
Q
What increases the validity of an experiment?
A
Mundane realism is decreased by ECOLOGICAL VALIDITY. Making it more realistic.
Control extraneous variables
4
Q
What increases the reliability of an experiment?
A
- Standardised procedure
* Extraneous variables are controlled
5
Q
What decreases the reliability of a questionnaire?
A
- social desirability bias
* central tendency bias
6
Q
What increases the validity of an observation?
A
- covert - participants have genuine behaviour
- extraneous variables controlled
- train observers so behaviour is interpreted the same
