Ecological validity

Social Media is a world that is hard to keep up with and is constantly changing. There is new technology and features that are added to apps that are attracting younger populations every year. I babysat for a seven-year-old boy named William who would constantly ask to see my phone so he can take a picture of himself to make sure that he still looks good. A research question that a sociologist might ask is: How does Instagram use affect the self-esteem of young adults? Instagram use would be the

Introduction/Literature Review According to the introduction of this article, the authors clearly revealed the cause and effect of the smoking regarding increase cost of healthcare, high volume of smoking phenomena, and excessive burden of smoking. From the literature review, the authors showed the current evidence and coherent flow of idea about the development of smoking cessation interventions, analysis causes of unsuccessful interventions, and gaps in smoking cessation interventions. The authors

order to address all of the students needs both at-risk and gifted and talented learners. Since the sample was 5 different elementary schools in various locations and demographic makeup, the external validity of the study is high. One possible factor that serves as a threat to the external validity is the people selected. It is unclear if the students were selected

Contamination is threat present in the OSGV program that affects the program’s internal validity. Contamination occurs when the comparison group is affected or affects the treatment group. The experimental group may have had lower rates of gang-violence after the programs implementation due to their desire to have the experimental measures removed. The residents of the communities expressed weak to moderate support for some of OSGV’s measures, so it is likely the knowledge of the comparison affected

saying points out that people are never satisfied. In fact, not only does this aphorism have implications in our daily lives, it also shed light on a broader context in social science such as unemployment insurance policy. In order to determine the validity of this aphorism in the society today, we could conduct an experiment targeting the college students who are randomly assigned into two groups, and examine how they would respond differently after they received a different endowment of money.

no inside sources affect with the aftereffect of the experiment. The internal validity in this study was the code numbers on the rats when they were looking for results this was important because this way no one was able to try to look for ordinary things that would normally be missed; but since the scientist knew what he was looking for he found it and because of that it wouldn’t be valid results. The external validity was that the sample sizes of the experiment made sure it wasn’t a one time fluke

Table 3 shows that no significant difference was observed between the overall scores of adjustment in domestic and international Asian students. This finding is different from previous studies that showed East Asian students to have difficulty understanding the academic content resulting in poor adjustment success (Lee, Farruggia, & Brown, 2013). To test our main hypothesis, JASP was used to generate data through descriptive statistics, ANOVA and further post hoc analyses. Initially, we generated

A. A naturalistic observation is a form of research that takes place in the participant's own environment. This could be the participant's’ workplace or a child's home. Another form of observation that was also conducted was covert observations is an empirical research were the participants don’t know when they are being observed. Covert methods in general has always been contentious, on the basis that you can mislead the participant of the study. However, they offer access to information that would

The articles are both strong in opinion and detail with persuasive arguments; the analysis will review the validity, logic, accuracy, misleading statements, ambiguity, and credibility of each article. Ban Outsourcing? Bad Idea by Manjeet Kripalani Accomplished journalist, Manjeet Kripalani, in the article, “Ban Outsourcing? Bad

The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children Fifth Edition (WISC-V) is an interactive performance based test that measures overall intellectual ability for children ages 6 through16. The test is primarily used by school psychologists, clinical psychologists, and neuropsychologists to determine a students giftedness, identify intellectual and learning disabilities, assess cognitive strengths and weaknesses, or to evaluate the impact of brain injuries. It is also used by practitioners to compare