These approaches are informative for addressing how children or adults introspect, attend to, or choose to describe their behavior.
If he introspects or subsequently remembers such an episode, he recognizes an intermediary between himself and the content of his intentional state.
However, not all learners are equally able to introspect and to report their thoughts.
The brain is not the kind of thing that we can introspect, nor are thoughts the kind of things we can see.
People learn unconsciously while performing design or explicitly when introspecting on previous activities or on the whole process.
Various methods have been used to determine underlying linguistic knowledge, including having learners introspect about their knowledge.
Similarly, younger children also may be less able to introspect and conceptualize their symptoms, and hence report them; thus, cognitive ability may create artifactual developmental differences in symptoms.
After completing the tasks, learners watched videotapes of their previous interactions and were asked to introspect about their thoughts at the time the original interactions were in progress.
