Introspection

Introspection is the examination and reporting of one’s own conscious thoughts and experiences. It can provide first-person evidence about mental life, though its reliability and scope remain disputed.

Metacognition: Metacognition is monitoring or regulating one’s own cognitive processes. Introspection often involves judging what one knows, feels, or is thinking.
Behaviorism: Behaviorism is an approach to psychology that centers observable behavior rather than private mental states. It rejects introspective reports as a primary basis for psychological explanation.
René Descartes: René Descartes was a French philosopher and mathematician whose work shaped modern philosophy. His reflections on thought and self-awareness helped establish introspection as a philosophical problem.
Experience sampling method: The experience sampling method collects reports of thoughts, feelings, or activities at repeated moments in daily life. It turns introspective reports into repeated measurements of everyday experience.
Hard problem of consciousness: The hard problem of consciousness is the question of why physical processes are accompanied by subjective experience. Introspective access reveals experience but does not explain why it exists.
Inner speech: Inner speech is the experience of language-like thought without speaking aloud. It is one form of conscious thought that introspection can examine.
Introspection illusion: The introspection illusion is the tendency to overestimate access to the causes of one’s own judgments. It identifies a specific limit on introspective claims about why decisions occur.
John Locke: John Locke was an English philosopher whose account of ideas influenced empiricism and theories of mind. He described reflection on one’s own mental operations as a source of ideas.
Descriptive experience sampling: Descriptive experience sampling is a method that prompts people to describe their experience at randomly selected moments. It aims to capture specific episodes before retrospective reconstruction reshapes them.
Qualia: Qualia are the subjective qualities of conscious experiences, such as the felt character of pain or color. They name the qualitative features introspection tries to describe.

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