Asking Questions, Seeking Clarifications, and Finding Alternate Channels of Information

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Essay

Asking questions, seeking clarifications, and finding alternate channels of information are ways that one can actively look for additional evidence to check the accuracy of one's perceptions. This process is known as __________.

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Definitions:

Electra Complex

A term in psychoanalytic theory referring to a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father.

Freud

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist, established psychoanalysis, a method of treating mental disorders through conversations between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

Romantic Relationship

An intimate relationship between two people typically involving emotional and physical closeness, love, and affection.

Unscientific

A term used to describe methodologies, claims, or practices not based on or consistent with the principles of the scientific method.