The maturation threat can operate when biological or psychological changes occur within subjects and these changes may account in part or in total for effects discerned in the study. For example, a ...

There is a distinction that one learns about on the first day of a course in psychological research methods. It is the difference between internal and external validity. Internal validity is ...

The three-step process shown in Table 2 can be used to assess the validity of a study's findings and determine if they are relevant to readers' practices. The first step in establishing validity is to ...