Ecological validity
What Ecological validity means in Psychology GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definitions of Ecological validity
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The extent to which findings reflect real-life situations, which laboratory experiments typically lack because of their artificial setting.
A strength of naturalistic observations, and something laboratory experiments often lack compared to field experiments.
Topics that use Ecological validity
- Designing psychological research (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Alternative hypothesis
- Co-variables
- Counterbalancing
- Covert observation
- Dependent variable
- Dependent variable (DV)
- Extraneous variables
- Independent measures
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