Question

Dr. Joseph thinks most people are generally trusting of strangers. He did a study at his university in the United States to test this idea, and the results confirmed his hypothesis. Dr. Joseph is discussing the results of this study with Dr. Ming, a friend who is a psychology researcher in China. Dr. Ming thinks people in Eastern cultures, such as China, are less trusting of strangers than are people in Western cultures, such as the United States. Dr. Joseph and Dr. Ming decide to run a second study in which they have a group of participants in China and a group of participants in the United States both complete the task used in Dr. Joseph's study. This second study is a ____________.a. meta-analysis replicationb. conceptual replicationc. direct replicationd. replication-plus-extension

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is - b. conceptual replication.

Explanation:

While a study may arrive at certain conclusion with one population sample, it might result in the opposite conclusion with the second population sample, because people in different cultures share different characteristics.  

In order to test the hypothesis, that the same study would lead to the opposite result in the Eastern culture as opposing to the Western culture, Dr. Ming and Dr, Joseph decide to run a conceptual replica of Dr. Josephs’s original study. Here, they apply the same concept of individuals’ level of trust towards strangers, but with a different population.