creators_name: Chow, Siu L. type: journalp datestamp: 1999-07-26 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:18 metadata_visibility: show title: Science, Ecological Validity and Experimentation ispublished: pub subjects: cog-psy subjects: phil-sci full_text_status: public keywords: ecological validity, experimentation, realist, science, theory-dependent observation, atheoretical observation, generality, replication abstract: 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. date: 1987-07 date_type: published publication: Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour volume: 17 number: 2 pagerange: 181-194 refereed: TRUE citation: Chow, Siu L. (1987) Science, Ecological Validity and Experimentation. [Journal (Paginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/816/1/ecologx.htm