the extent to which results can be generalised outside of the research setting
ecological validity
a form of external validity - the extent to which findings from a study can be generalised to other settings
temporal validity
a form of external validity- the extent to which findings from a study can be generalised to other particular time periods
mundane realism
how realistic the task in the experiment is, how similar it is to real life
internal validity
the extent to which a test measure what it is supposed to measure and hat the effects are due to the manipulation of the independent variable and not another factor
concurrent validity
the extent to which a psychological measure relates to an existing similar measure, with a correlation coefficient of +0.8
face validity
the extent to which test items look like what the test claims to measure
