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”Some studies of obedience are criticised for lacking experimental validity, others for lacking ecological validity and others for lacking both.”To what extent have studies of obedience been shown to lack validity?
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(c) "Some studies of obedience are criticised for lacking experimental validity, others for lacking ecological validity and others for lacking both." To what extent have studies of obedience been shown to lack validity? (18 marks) Many social influence experiments have been criticised for not having experimental validity. This means that it is possible that the participants were not convinced by the procedures, that they thought they were actually, for example, not giving electric shocks in the Milgram study or obeying an order given by someone who was a fake doctor in the Hofling study. High experimental validity would occur if the Ps actually believed that the procedures were real. Ecological validity is rarely found in laboratory experiments as the term means that the situation could easily be found in the real world. The procedures in the Milgram study, giving electric shocks to complete strangers would b unlikely to be an everyday situation. However, it can...
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