Hannah decides to test whether engineering majors have greater visual-spatial abilities than students with other majors. Hannah decides to define visual-spatial ability in terms of how long it takes each participant to complete a jigsaw puzzle. This is an

a. operational definition
b. theoretical definition
c. corollary
d. hypothesis


Answer: a

Psychology

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