Psychology A-Level
replication crisis
What replication crisis means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of replication crisis
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Reference: OCR
The evidence, such as the Open Science Collaboration finding that fewer than half of a hundred repeated published psychology findings reached significance again, that review on its own is not enough.
Topics that use replication crisis
- Report writing (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Harvard convention
- in-text citation
- publication bias
- research funding
- results without interpretation
- validation of new knowledge
- appendices and raw data
- method sub-sections
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