Dr. Dienringer wants to study attachment patterns in single-parents families. She plan to define the strength of attachment as the time it takes for the parent to respond when the infant starts to cry. Defining attachment in this way would:
Correct answer: C. represent an operational definition
- A. distort the true meaning attachment
- B. be an example of a hypothesis
- C. represent an operational definition
- D. require a double-blind research design
Explanation
An operational definition translates an abstract construct such as attachment into a measurable procedure, here the delay before a parent responds to crying. It does not claim that response time captures every aspect of attachment.
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