When someone said your name across the room, your attention shifted immediately from the TV news you had been intently watching to that conversation. This is most similar to:

Adaris has always been drawn to the saying "Absence makes the heart grow fonder," and she decides to incorporate this saying into her research project. Adaris is trying to define absence in a way that can be empirically tested

She is attempting to find an appropriate __________________. a) hypothesis b) operational definition c) double-blind study d) theory

An operational definition is ___________________

a) a statement that attempts to predict a set of phenomena and specifies relationships among variables that can be empirically tested b) an organized system of assumptions and principles that purports to explain a specified set of phenomena and their interrelationships c) a clear and precise explanation of how a concept will be measured in a study or an experiment d) the principle that a scientific theory must make predictions that are specific enough to expose the theory to the possibility of disconfirmation