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-stimulus error
A)consonant-vowel-consonant combinations,such as taz,bok,and lef,used to study memory
B)during introspection,imposing meaning or interpretation on mental contents,rather than reducing them to their most basic elements
C)the finding that memory for a learned task first drops off steeply and then declines more slowly

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Stimulus error refers to the mistake made during introspection, where an individual imposes their own interpretation or meaning onto what they are observing, rather than breaking it down to its most basic elements. This error deviates from the objective analysis sought in introspective methods, particularly in early psychology.

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