Egon Brunswik coined the term ecological validity to refer to the correlation between perceptual cues and the states and traits of a stimulus. Martin Orne adapted the term to refer to the generalization of experimental findings to the real world outside the laboratory. Both are legitimate uses of the term because the ecological validity of the cues in an experiment determines the ecological validity of the experiment itself.

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生态有效性和“生态有效性”

Egon Brunswik 创造了“生态有效性”一词，指的是感知线索与刺激的状态和特征之间的相关性。马丁·奥恩 (Martin Orne) 修改了该术语以指代将实验结果推广到实验室外的现实世界。两者都是该术语的合法用法，因为实验中线索的生态有效性决定了实验本身的生态有效性。