How to evaluate a core study

Think about ethics, validity, reliability, usefulness, practical applications of the study, which debates the study supports and why. There are other things you can think about but these are some of the best to tackle first...e.g. MilgramEthics; Highly unethical, why? Violates the participants' right to withdraw and deceives them. Participants were not protected from harm as some had stress seizures.Validity; Poor population validity as the sample contained only males, rather low ecological validity also as it is an unusual situation for the participants to be inReliability; Standardised procedure so the study could be repeated again giving it good reliability

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