A researcher has observed many four-year old girls preferring to dress in pink, wear ballerina tutus, and dancing on tip-toe. She defines these behaviors as "gender-role play"-- and theorizes that this behavior will be seen cross-culturally and that one will also find "gender-role play" in four-year old boys. She develops an inventory to measure "gender-role play" and uses it to test her hypothesis. In this case, "gender-role play"--a inferred cause of observed behaviors--is an example of _________________.
a. a hypothesis
b. a psychological construct
c. an operational definition
d. an independent variable
Ans: b. a psychological construct
Psychology
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