In Clara's honors research project on the effect of video games on aggression in children, the measure of aggression was the number of times physical contact occurred among the children being observed. Clara's measure of aggression is an example of

a. the operational definition of a variable. c. the reliability of a measure.
b. the validity of a measure. d. a control variable.


A

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