Chapter 14 RP

Direct replication

A replication study where researchers repeat the original study closely to check if the original effect is observed in the new data.

File drawer problem

Issue in literature reviews and meta-analyses where unpublished studies with null results may not be included, potentially overestimating theory support.

Ecological validity

How closely a study's tasks and manipulations resemble real-world contexts, a facet of external validity, also known as mundane realism.

Field setting

Real-world environment for a research study.

Experimental realism

How well a lab experiment is designed for participants to experience genuine emotions, motivations, and behaviors.

If you repeat a study and find the same results as the first time, what can you say about the effect?

It is replicable

When a researcher conducts a replication study in which she has the same variables at an abstract level, but uses different operationalizations of each variable, what type of study is it?

conceptual replication

A _____ is a technique in which the researcher mathematically averages the results of all studies that have been completed with the same conceptual variables.

meta-analysis

Which of the following claims is most likely to have been tested in generalization mode?

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What is a reversal design (ABAB design)?

An experimental design where baseline conditions (A) and an intervention conditions (B) are reversed with the goal of strengthening experimental control

what is an attrition threat to internal validity

This bias can affect the relationship between your independent and dependent variables. It can make variables appear to be correlated when they are not, or vice versa.