Experimenters using verbal reports as research tools
a. can rely on them as the sole dependent measure in an experiment.
b. should continue to do so since verbal reports are perfectly correlated with performance.
c. may find the discrepancies between verbal reports and behavioral measures to be interesting in and of themselves.
d. find few discrepancies between people's verbal reports and more objective behavioral measures of cognitive processes.
C
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