Introspection was later criticized as a research method because it:?

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1. focused solely on objective measurements and not on self-reports

2. required too many behavioral observations

3. was only useful with psychologically disturbed patients

4. was unscientific since it did not use objective measurement, but rather used only self-reports

Answer 1

Answer 4.

"Behaviorists claimed that introspection was unreliable and that the subject matter of scientific psychology should be strictly operationalized in an objective and measurable way. This then led psychology to focus on measurable behavior rather than consciousness or sensation."

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