PSYC 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Self-Awareness, Fairy, Internal Validity
5 Feb 2016
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Want results to be generalizable to another population or in a different setting, generalizable but also replicable. Drink gave you energy from the sugar, one placebo and the other is not, strup test - tasks - paragraph and cross all the e"s out, mentally draining - sugar drink they you should do better. Does it have an impact on might be taking away from internal validity. Similarity of events in lab to those likely to occur outside the lab. What your experiment vs what what happens in the real outside world. Behavior in lab - domestic dispute or someone on train tracks downfall that it. Outside experiment is hard to control extraneous variables. Impact - generalizable to everyday cases might not happen ex. Buying a particular pair of shoes in lab or shopping mall - mall tactics so you"ll purchase things generalizable than a negative effect.
