Explain the reasons why social psychological research questions the efficacy of introspection as a method for self-understanding

What will be an ideal response?

Research has revealed that we do not always know or have conscious access to the reasons for our actions. However, we can certainly generate—after the fact—what might seem to be logical theories of why we acted as we did. Because we often genuinely don't know why we feel a particular way, generating reasons (which might be inaccurate) could cause us to arrive at false conclusions.

Psychology

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The 2014 ACA Code of Ethics:

a. advises counselors to develop specialty competences before attempting to counsel children. b. contains few standards specifically related to counseling children. c. requires counselors to notify parents or guardians when teens disclose they have used marijuana. d. advises counselors to consider that adolescents are more concerned about privacy than adult clients. e. advises counselors to report to police any instances of sexting among adolescents

Psychology

__________ occurs when the ego is afraid it will not be able to control the id

(a) moral anxiety (b) neurotic anxiety (c) psychotic anxiety (d) perceptual anxiety (e) Freudian slip

Psychology