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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