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6. What is meant by the term generalisability ?

  • controlling variables
  • generalise findings to everyday life
  • Do an investigation on the general public

7. What is a strength of carrying out a lab experiment ?

  • higher ecological validity
  • you can manipulate the IV to observe the effects it has on the DV
  • IV is not manipulated

8. Loftus and palmer carried out a experiemnt, what did they study the effects of ?

  • Aggression
  • Leading questions
  • How people respond to a system of inequality

9. What does the term ecological validity mean ?

  • How consistent any measure is
  • Extent to which findings can be generalised to everyday life
  • Be objective

10. What are situational variables

  • Any feature of a research situation which influences behaviour
  • Characteristics of individual participants may influence outcome of study
  • How the researcher can change the DV