External Validity

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  • External Validity
    • Ecological validity
      • The degree to which the findings of a study can be generalised to other situations, places and conditions. 
      • whether a measure of behaviour accurately reflects the way in which the behaviour would occur in normal circumstance.
    • Temporal validity
      • Where the findings from research that took place at a certain point in time accurately reflect the way that behaviour would occur at a different point in time.
    • Population validity
      • Where the findings from research can be generalised from the sample to other populations

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