Psychology I / Contemporary Trends
Practice question · Put in order

Order the events by which the replication crisis reshaped research practice.

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  1. The failures to replicate came before the reforms they triggered.
  2. Preregistration is the RESPONSE, adopted last, once the problem was clear.
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  1. Many classic findings are published and widely cited.
  2. Researchers attempt to reproduce them in careful follow-up studies in the 2010s.
  3. A striking number of the findings fail to replicate.
  4. An open-science movement gains momentum.
  5. Preregistration is adopted to reduce false positives.
Why

Widely cited classics were followed by replication attempts in the 2010s, many failed, an open-science movement grew, and preregistration was adopted to curb false positives. The reforms are a response to the documented failures, not their cause.

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