These questions are more than just a hypothetical construct.
Construct, also called hypothetical construct or psychological construct, in psychology, a tool used to facilitate understanding of human behaviour.
Meehl and MacCorquodale recommended using the term intervening variable for the abstraction and hypothetical construct for the physiological foundation.
By contrast, Edward L. Thorndike (1874 1949) handled learning as a hypothetical construct, positing a physiological mechanism: improved conduction of nerve impulses.
The basic element in geometrical optics is the light ray, a hypothetical construct that indicates the direction of the propagation of light at any point in space.
The convergent validity of the hypothetical construct of acquiescence was investigated in a sample of 207 psychology undergraduates by using three different methods: (1) separate acquiescence scales, (2) balanced scales, and (3) the procedure proposed by Winkler, Kanouse and Ware (1982).
Secondly, 'attitude' itself is an elusive hypothetical construct which cannot be directly measured (e.g., Eagly & Chaiken, [1993]).
While the referendum itself became certain with the 2015 election, BREXIT, for now, remains a hypothetical construct since at the time of writing, it has not happened.
The first reason, i.e. attitude is synonymous to face validity, is not tenable because attitude as a hypothetical construct has a wider scope which often subsumes face validity.
In relation to the second reason, i.e. 'attitude' is a hypothetical construct which is difficult to operationalize and measure, we believe it is important to apply the general theoretical frameworks of this construct in social psychology to the needs of a particular research situation (see also Fan & Ji, [2014]).
