What Is the Process of Peer Review

question 12

Multiple Choice

what is the process of peer review?

• A) Professionals evaluate inconsistent data to achieve a breakthrough in understanding.
• B) Qualified professionals test the replicability of an experiment before publishing an article about it.
• C) Qualified professionals in the field review and comment on an article before it is published in a professional or academic journal.
• D) A third party reviews the qualifications of the people in a laboratory before recommending that others use its services.

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Definitions:

Elaborative Rehearsal

The kind of coding in which new information is related to information that is already known.

Levels-of-processing Model

A theory suggesting that memory retention is directly related to the depth of mental processing of information, ranging from shallow to deep.

Method of Savings

A measure of retention in which the difference between the number of repetitions originally required to learn a list and the number of repetitions required to relearn the list after a certain amount of time has elapsed is calculated.

Ebbinghaus

A psychologist best known for his research on memory, particularly for discovering the forgetting curve and the spacing effect.