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Replicate

Meaning in psychology, with examples

/ˈreplɪkeɪt/verbCommon term

In psychology, replicate means: To repeat a study, usually with new participants, to see whether the original findings appear again; a finding that appears again is also said to replicate.

In Turkish: yinelemek, tekrarlamak

How it is used

Central to debates about the replication crisis in psychology since the 2010s. Researchers replicate a study or fail to replicate a finding; the noun is replication (direct replication, conceptual replication, replication study).

Example sentences

  1. Several well-known priming effects failed to replicate in large studies.

  2. We plan to replicate the experiment with a larger and more diverse sample.

Common collocations

  • replicate a finding
  • fail to replicate
  • replication study
  • replication crisis
  • experimentA study in which the researcher deliberately changes one factor and measures the effect on another, while keeping other conditions as constant as possible.
  • statistical significanceA sign that a result would be unlikely if there were really no effect, usually judged by whether the p-value falls below a set level such as .05.
  • effect sizeA number that shows how large a difference or relationship is, independent of sample size, such as Cohen's d or a correlation coefficient.
  • reliabilityHow consistent a measure is: a reliable test gives similar results when it is repeated, when different raters score it, or across its items.

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