In commenting on using verbal reports, Nisbett and Wilson argue that:
a. people often don't accurately describe their own cognitive processes.
b. verbal report is highly consistent with actual behavior.
c. verbal report is too unreliable to use.
d. verbal report and actual behavior need to be conceptualized as two separate, independent phenomena.
A
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