PSYC19H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Replication Crisis, John Barge, Stereotype Threat
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2011/2012- ppl realized that something isn"t right and there is a problem: bem published paper in jpsp, best journal in social psychology, documenting esp. 2011 study journal of personality in social psychology. "an examination of stereotype threat effects on girls" mathematics performance" (pdf). Bem study: participants saw a list of words briefly and then listed as many as they could remember. Afterwards, they were given a randomly-chosen subset to see again and write down (i. e. , to practice). Even though they practiced the words after being asked to recall the words, the recalled those words better if they practices them later. As if they could see the future and knew which words they would practice. Esp: roughly 1-1. 5% of all psych journal articles are replicated at all (mackel, plucker, & hegarty, 2012, power: when the alternative explanation is true, the probability of finding an effect.
