External and Ecological Validity

I. External Validity

A. Introduction

= ability to generalize your experimental results

B. Three types of generalization:

1. to the population of interest

2. to the environment of interest

 

 

3. to the time of interest

C. Threats to External Validity

1) threats based on methods

 

 

 

2) threats based on participants

II. Discussion Questions

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