When a researcher decides to represent adolescent risk behaviors with variables about illegal drug use and the use of tobacco products,he or she is
A)moving from an abstract to a more concrete phase of the study.
B)deciding to give up some precision by focusing only on two representations of risk behaviors.
C)assuming that illegal drug use and tobacco use is only risky for adolescents.
D)choosing risk behaviors that are universally agreed to be the most important.

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The researcher is operationalizing the concept of adolescent risk behaviors by selecting specific, measurable variables (illegal drug use and tobacco use), thus moving from an abstract concept to a more concrete representation.

When a Researcher Decides to Represent Adolescent Risk Behaviors with Variables