validity and reliability

• one word to describe validity?

  Accuracy
• one word to describe reliability?

  consistency
• what is internal validity?

  the outcome of the variables manipulated within the study
• what is external validity?

  the extent that the study is an accurate representation to other settings outside the study
• explain the types of external validity?

  ecological validity (can be generalised to other settings)

  population validity (can be generalised to other people)
• what does reliability mean?

  measurements/ observations of the same thing will be consistent with eachother