AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the following is NOT a strength of experimental studies? Establishment of causal links between variables.

Detailed explanation-2: -A high ecological validity indicates that the findings of the research can be generalized and applied to real-life situations. This means that people who are in the real-life situations researched would experience the same things as people from the study.

Detailed explanation-3: -Strength: They allow for precise control of extraneous and independent variables. This allows a cause and effect relationship to be established. Limitation: The artificiality of the setting may produce unnatural behavior that does not reflect real life, i.e. low ecological validity.

Detailed explanation-4: -“A key strength for a study having high ecological validity is that it allows psychologists to generalize the findings.” “For example, studies with low ecological validity are often easier to replicate and therefore will have increased reliability.”