Psychologists need to decide how they will ________ the phenomenon they are interested in so that they can describe that phenomenon.

Question

(1 point)
Responses

control
control

measure
measure

explain
explain

predict

Answer 1

The most appropriate word to fill in the blank is "measure."

So the complete sentence would be: "Psychologists need to decide how they will measure the phenomenon they are interested in so that they can describe that phenomenon."