Since You Are the Only Person Who Can Directly Observe

question 446

Multiple Choice

Since you are the only person who can directly observe the inner workings of your own mind, early psychologists would have studied your mind by relying upon your subjective ability to "look inward" at your own thoughts and feelings and reported what you had observed. This technique is called

• A)introspection.
• B)meta-analysis.
• C)transduction.
• D)dissociation.

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Definitions:

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