Terms beginning with R
Which psychology terms begin with R?
2 entries beginning with R: Reliability, Replication Crisis.
From the PsychologyOrbit knowledge base on 2 November 2026.
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Reliability
The consistency of a measurement — across items, occasions, raters or forms. It sets a ceiling on validity: a score that varies at random cannot measure anything, but a perfectly consistent score may still measure the wrong thing.
Replication Crisis
The finding, from the 2010s onward, that a substantial share of published psychological results do not replicate when repeated with adequate power and preregistered methods, and the reform movement that followed.
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