Psychology A-Level
validation of new knowledge
What validation of new knowledge means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of validation of new knowledge
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The role of the psychological community in judging whether a study's method supports its conclusion, whether the statistics were applied properly, whether the work is original and whether the ethics were sound.
Topics that use validation of new knowledge
- Report writing (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Harvard convention
- in-text citation
- publication bias
- replication crisis
- research funding
- results without interpretation
- appendices and raw data
- method sub-sections
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