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Gardner and Gardner Teaching sign language to a chimpanzee Discuss the Gardeners' chimp study in terms of validity and reliability The study by the Gardner's educated psychologists about how they should conduct their studies. Also through negative methodology the study showed the importance of sustaining validity in a study. Many aspects of the study can be replicated in order to increase validity of a study, and also many considerations are highlighted through the Gardners' study. According to Gardner and Gardner, 'the results of project Washoe presented the first serious challenge to the doctrine that only human beings have language'. This statement meant that the Gardner's firmly believed that there study sustained a high level of both reliability and validity, which in turn they believed increased the generalisability of the study. The aim of the study was to demonstrate that a chimpanzee does has the capability to use human language. This study was conducted...

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