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Operationalizing a concept consists of delineating the reasons,antecedents,consequences,or correlates of the concept.

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Objects include:

A) Persons,strategic business units,and companies.
B) Countries,cars,and arousal seeking tendency.
C) Elephants,kitchen appliances,and shopping enjoyment.
D) Restaurants,shampoo,and service quality.

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A variable or construct must always be directly observable.

Operationalizing is:

Examples of characteristics of objects are:

Operationalizing a variable precedes defining a variable.

Which of the following answers is a 'concept'?

Attributes of objects that can be physically measured by some calibrated instruments pose no measurement problems.

Reduction of abstract concepts to render them measurable in a tangible way is called operationalizing the concepts.

Measurement is the assignment of numbers or other symbols to characteristics of objects according to a pre-specified set of rules.

Operationalizing is done by looking at the behavioral dimensions,facets,or properties denoted by the concept.These are then translated into observable and measurable elements so as to develop an index of measurement of the concept.

The construct 'hunger' is a typical example of a construct that must be operationalized because it is an abstract and subjective concept.

You cannot measure objects;you measure _____________ of objects.