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| How close to real life the experiment it eg. laboratory experiments will have a much lower ecological validity as a study conducted in a more realistic environment. |
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| Application To Everyday Life |
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| Close to ecological validity but is more concerned with the wider application of the research rather than just the environment eg. a laboratory may have very useful practical applications. |
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| Representativeness and Generalisability (sample) |
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| Whether or not the sample chosen can represent the rest of the population. |
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| Whether or not the research should have been conducted when looking at morals and long term psychological effects on the sample. |
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| The consideration to which genetics and biology determine who we are and the extent to which our experiences make up who we are. |
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| Individual vs. Situational Explanations |
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| Whether we act the way do because of our individual differences or by the situation we find ourselves in. |
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| The consistency of the experiment and the ease of which it would be to replicate it. In terms of observations, it refers more to the consistency of the measurement. |
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| The accuracy of a measure eg. does the number of correct answers in a test reflect the intelligence of a person? |
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| Qualitative And Quantitate Measures |
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| Research can be recorded in many ways, one of them is in numbers (graphs, or tally) this would would be quantitive data. Words collected by written or verbal language is known as Qualitative data. |
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| The amount of control the researcher has over the study. A study carried out in a laboratory has a much higher control over an experiment in a real life setting. |
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| If there is a complex psychological problem, it can be explained by reducing them to a much simpler level (usually single factor) |
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| Behavior is determined by factors outside of our control eg. biological (genes or hormones) or situational (reinforcements received from others) |
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