Chapter 2: Replications in Psychology

Question 1

Replication:

Answer 1

An experiment that uses the same procedure as a previous experiment but with a new sample from the same population.

Help increase confidence that a result from an experiment is not a fluke, derived from a mistake.

Question 2

Replications may have: Type 1 errors:

Answer 2

“A false positive.”

When researchers conclude that there is a relationship between two variables when the replication shows that in fact there is not.

Question 3

Replications may have: Type 2 errors:

Answer 3

” A false negative.”

When researchers conclude that there is not a relationship between two variables when the replication shows that in fact there is.

Question 4

Reanalysis:

Answer 4

Scientists’s data and claims will be tested to see if they are true as other scientists start studying it too.