A cognitive psychologist is investigating how adults retrieve words from their long-term memory. Since memory retrieval is an internal, unobservable mental process, the psychologist measures the reaction times of participants when naming pictures of varying familiarity.
Explain how the psychologist could use inference in this study to understand these unobservable mental processes.
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