conceptual variables
How could I operationalize the following conceptual variables? Describe operationalizations. Are they self-report, observational, or physiological?
- In a study on whether social skills training will increase people’s friendliness, researchers needed to measure friendliness.
- One element of an IQ test contained a measure of speed of problem solving.
- In a consumer study of people’s interest in electronic products, researchers measure people’s willingness to read books on an e-reader or handheld computer.
- In an educational psychology study, researchers wish to measure attention span in children who are working on mathematics problems.