Author Question: Ecological validity refers to the degree to which lab data hold true when altered to account for ... (Read 73 times)

rachel9 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Ecological validity refers to the degree to which lab data hold true when altered to account for ____.

a. ecological differences between the lab and the outside environment
b. the degree to which data gathered in a lab will apply outside the lab, given the influences of the environment on cognitive activity
c. the accuracy of predictions of how test subjects will react when placed in an environment with different ecological relationships
d. the effect ecological changes have on the behavior of organisms in the particular environment

Question 2

Karpicke (2009) developed a task in which participants had to learn and recall Swahili-English word pairs. After subjects first recalled the meaning of a word, that pair was either dropped, presented twice more in a study period, or presented twice more in text periods. Subjects took a final recall test one week later. Which research method was used here?

a. artificial intelligence
b. controlled laboratory experiment
c. neuroscientific research
d. self-report