INTRO

• WHAT IS VALIDITY?

  if findings are real or just an outcome of a research study that doesn't actually represent reality
• WHAT ARE THE TWO TYPES OF VALIDITY?

  internal and external
• WHAT IS INTERNAL VALIDITY?

  whether we are testing what we actually intend to test
• WHAT DOES INTERNAL VALIDITY CONCERN?

  if other factors affected our findings
• WHAT IS EXTERNAL VALIDITY?

  the extent to which we can generalise our research findings to other situations
• MAIN TYPE OF RESEARCH METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY?

  experiments, observations, questionnaires, case studies, interviews, correlations
• WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF EXPERIMENTS?

  to draw conclusions about cause and effect
• HOW TO REMEMBER ETHICS IN PSYCHOLOGY?

  CRISP
• ACRONYM TO ANALYSE A STUDY?

  GRAVE
• HOW TO ANALYSE A STUDY?

  Generalisability

  Reliability

  Application

  Validity

  Ethics
• ACRONYM TO ANALYSE A THEORY/ MODEL/ EXPLANATION?

  AFIRE
• HOW TO ANALYSE A THEORY/ MODEL/ EXPLANATION?

  Applicability

  Fails to consider

  Issues and debates

  Research

  Explanatory power
• ACRONYM TO EVALUATE A TREATMENT?

  EARUP
• HOW TO ANALYSE A TREATMENT?

  Ethical

  Applicability

  Research

  Universal

  Practical
• CONCLUSION THAT MUST COME WHEN STUDYING A MODEL/ THEORY/ EXPLANATION?

  credible or limited
• CONCLUSION THAT MUST COME WHEN ANALYSING A TREATMENT?

  appropriate or effective