Dr.Johnson uses a white noise blast in a quiet, sterile lab room to study her participants' startle response.While the physiological and psychological data she will record will be reliable, her study will likely have less:

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Ecological validity refers to the degree to which the findings of a study can be generalized to real-world settings. Using a white noise blast in a quiet, sterile lab room is unlikely to replicate the experience of a startle response in a natural environment, such as a loud and bustling city street. Therefore, the study lacks ecological validity.

DrJohnson Uses a White Noise Blast in a Quiet, Sterile