Psychology A-Level
research funding
What research funding means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of research funding
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Reference: OCR
Money allocated by the same machinery of peer review that judges manuscripts, alongside the selection of conference papers.
Topics that use research funding
- Report writing (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Harvard convention
- in-text citation
- publication bias
- replication crisis
- results without interpretation
- validation of new knowledge
- appendices and raw data
- method sub-sections
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