Operational definitions of concepts are important because they:
a. provide an objective and reliable basis for communication among scientists.
b. are equivalent in many respects to conceptual replication schemes.
c. allow the scientist to accumulate hard and absolute facts.
d. provide a key operation for our data and facts.
a
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A. violent relatives. B. stress and frustration in their lives. C. independence at home. D. friends.
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a. Test-retest agreement b. Interscorer agreement c. Intrascorer agreement d. Internal agreement
You are a psychologist who is evaluating the behavior of a new client. The client tells you that he does not like to wear clothing and that he walks around nude most of the time
In addition, he tells you that he lives in a society in which clothing is required and nudity is seen as abnormal. Which of the following is NOT a criterion by which you evaluate your client's behavior as abnormal? a. unconventionality b. maladaptive c. distress d. irrationality e. undesirability
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a. perceptive blind c. control device b. placebo d. Hawthorne implant