TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints816
UR  - http://cogprints.org/816/
A1  - Chow, Siu L.
Y1  - 1987/07//
N2  - Some important meta-theoretical insights about experimental psychology are integrated into the "conjectures and refutations" framework in order to reinforce a realist's view of scientific methodology. Some issues which may be difficult for the realist's position are discussed. It is argued that there is no need for the evidential observation to mimic the phenomenon of interest; such a mimicry may even be counter-productive. A case is also made that questions about ecological validity are not relevant to the rationale of experimentation.
KW  - ecological validity
KW  -  experimentation
KW  -  realist
KW  -  science
KW  -  theory-dependent observation
KW  -  atheoretical observation
KW  -  generality
KW  -  replication
TI  - Science, Ecological Validity and Experimentation
SP  - 181
AV  - public
EP  - 194
ER  -

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