operationalist
/ˌɑpəˈreɪʃənəlɪst/
noun
- A person who supports or follows the theory of operationalism.
- As an operationalist, she defined intelligence by test scores.
- The operationalist insisted that every scientific term must be tied to a measurement.
- The debate between the operationalist and the realist lasted for hours.
adjective
- Relating to or characteristic of operationalism.
- She took an operationalist view of the concept of time.
- His operationalist approach reduced complex ideas to simple measurements.
- The operationalist perspective is common in behavioral psychology.