Which of the following are operational definitions? (Select all that apply.)
a. Length of smoking cessation is the subject's statement of how long it has been since the subject last smoked tobacco.
b. Pain is whatever the patient says it is, whenever the patient says it is (Margo McCaffrey).
c. Imagination is the ability to see what will be, not what is.
d. Startle is the distance the research subject moves when a puppet tarantula is dropped into his field of view, in front of a computer screen.
e. Nausea is the number the subject provides, on a 0- to 10-point numerical scale, in response to being asked how nauseated the subject is.
ANS: A, D, E
An operational definition is derived from a set of procedures and progressive acts that a researcher performs either to manipulate an independent variable or to measure the existence or degree of existence of the dependent variable.
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