A researcher decides to measure aggression by recording the number of shocks participants administer to a confederate. This constitutes:
A) operationalization of the conceptual variable
B) a constant
C) a research hypothesis
D) a perfectly defined measure of aggression

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Operationalization is the process of defining a concept by specifying the operations or procedures used to measure it. In this case, the researcher is operationalizing the conceptual variable of aggression by measuring it as the number of shocks administered to a confederate.

A Researcher Decides to Measure Aggression by Recording the Number