Below is a brief description of a hypothetical on teacher dress: A study tested the hypothesis that wearing different clothing can influence how people describe their teachers. Researchers first...

Below is a brief description of a hypothetical on teacher dress:

A study tested the hypothesis that wearing different clothing can influence how people describe their teachers. Researchers first gained consensus on a list of teachers who dressed in formal wear such as dresses and heals or suit coats and ties (e.g., cultivated, accurate) and casual wear such as jeans or khaki pants and T-shirts (e.g., easygoing, tolerant). They then asked some students to rate their teachers’ personality traits. As predicted, they found that teachers in formal wear were rated with more “formalappropriate traits,” whereas teachers in casual wear were rated with more “casual-appropriate traits.”

1. What is the construct being measured in this study?

2. What is the operational definition for the construct?

3. Was the hypothesis confirmed? Explain.