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fahad

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Because psychology involves trying to understand complex and abstract concepts, researchers need to develop ________ in order to make useful measurements of those concepts.
 
  a. operational definitions
  b. hypothetical constructs
  c. literature searches
  d. independent variables

Question 2

A group of psychologists studying humor reaction studied participants' enjoyment of jokes by recording how many times the participants grinned, smiled, and laughed. These measurements of grinning, smiling, and laughing to represent enjoyment involve
 
  a. manipulated variables.
  b. main effects of humor enjoyment.
  c. logistic analysis.
  d. an operational definition of enjoyment.


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Pswine

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

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fahad

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
:D TYSM

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