A researcher finds that college students have short attention spans. To find out if this is also true for office workers, she conducts a new study that includes samples of both college students and office workers. The researcher is conducting a ________ of her first study
A) direct replication
B) partial replication
C) conceptual replication
D) replication and extension

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A replication and extension study includes both replicating the original study and adding additional variables to see if the original findings can be extended to a new population or context. In this scenario, the researcher is replicating her original study on the attention spans of college students, but she is also extending it by examining whether attention span is also influenced by employment status (i.e. college students vs. office workers).

A Researcher Finds That College Students Have Short Attention Spans