Lesson 1.3.10
1.3.10 Validity and its types Quiz: OCR Psychology, Unit 1
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The 20 questions
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Which type of validity refers to how well a study's findings generalise to real-world settings?
- Population validity
- Construct validity
- Ecological validity
- Temporal validity
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What type of validity assesses whether a test appears to measure what it claims to measure?
- Concurrent validity
- Predictive validity
- Face validity
- Internal validity
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Which term describes the extent to which research findings remain valid across different time periods?
- Construct validity
- Temporal validity
- Ecological validity
- Population validity
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What type of validity measures whether research findings apply to other groups of people?
- Face validity
- Temporal validity
- Population validity
- Ecological validity
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Which form of validity compares a new measurement tool directly against an existing, established measure?
- Construct validity
- Predictive validity
- Concurrent validity
- Face validity
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Which type of validity assesses how effectively a test forecasts future performance or behaviour?
- Face validity
- Concurrent validity
- Predictive validity
- Temporal validity
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What overarching term describes how well a study tests the theoretical concept it intended to measure?
- Construct validity
- External validity
- Ecological validity
- Face validity
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Which internal validity threat occurs when participants alter their behaviour to match guessed study aims?
- Social desirability
- Order effects
- Demand characteristics
- Investigator effects
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A researcher tests a new anxiety scale by comparing scores with an established anxiety questionnaire.
- Face validity
- Predictive validity
- Concurrent validity
- Temporal validity
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A study on conformity carried out in 1950 may not reflect modern behaviour due to which issue?
- Low temporal validity
- Low construct validity
- Low face validity
- Low ecological validity
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Using a sample of only male university students severely reduces which specific type of validity?
- Population validity
- Temporal validity
- Internal validity
- Face validity
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Participants rating themselves as more helpful than they actually are is an example of what bias?
- Confirmation bias
- Researcher bias
- Social desirability
- Participant reactivity
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How does using a double-blind procedure help to improve the internal validity of an experiment?
- Increases sample size
- Improves face validity
- Reduces investigator effects
- Eliminates order effects
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A researcher uses counterbalancing in a repeated measures design to protect internal validity against what threat?
- Demand characteristics
- Order effects
- Social desirability
- Selection bias
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A driving test accurately forecasts how many accidents a learner driver will have next year.
- High face validity
- High temporal validity
- High concurrent validity
- High predictive validity
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What minimum correlation coefficient is typically required to establish strong concurrent validity between two tests?
- +0.80
- +0.20
- +0.50
- +1.50
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Which concept refers to how closely the tasks in an experiment resemble everyday, real-life tasks?
- Construct validity
- Mundane realism
- Experimental realism
- Internal validity
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Concurrent validity and predictive validity are both specific sub-types of which broader category of validity?
- Criterion validity
- Internal validity
- Construct validity
- External validity
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Standardising instructions and environment across all experimental conditions primarily protects which form of validity?
- Temporal validity
- Population validity
- Internal validity
- Ecological validity
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Which type of validity is compromised when uncontrolled extraneous variables affect the dependent variable?
- Population validity
- Face validity
- Internal validity
- External validity
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