CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Weaknesses.-Data collected may lack ecological validity, as the artificial nature of laboratory experiments can cast doubt over whether the results reflect the nature of real life scenarios.

Detailed explanation-2: -“A major weakness of a study that has low ecological validity is that it is much harder to generalize the findings from the study as they are not representative of the real world or tasks.”

Detailed explanation-3: -Limitations. Lacks ecological validity – due to the involvement of the researcher in manipulating and controlling variables, findings cannot be easily generalised to other (real life) settings, resulting in poor external validity.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ecological validity measures how generalisable experimental findings are to the real world, such as situations or settings typical of everyday life. It is a subtype of external validity.