Operational definitions are employed in order to ____. a. ...

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Operational definitions are employed in order to ____.
 
  a. explain how hypotheses relate to larger theories
 b. state how one variable affects another variable
 c. explain how independent variables are manipulated by the experimenter
  d. clarify what the researcher means by a particular variable

Question 2

Professor Pierrot told his class, Clinical research must be replicable, relationships between variables must be clearly hypothesized and defined, and the measures used must be both reliable and valid.. What additional characteristic should the professor include in his instructions?
 
  a. Research data should be kept confidential, although conclusions should be shared with others.
  b. Base rate data must be acknowledged.
 c. The researcher's beliefs, attitudes, values, and emotions must guide the research.
 d. It's important to be able to revise data that are collected.

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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

b

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