You notice that your roommate has difficulty sleeping after consuming heavily caffeinated drinks. You know from your courses that caffeine can stimulate brain neurons that produce arousal (and that such arousal disturbs sleep function). If you suggest to your roommate that his/her insomnia reflects the action of caffeine on brain function, your explanation would involve the process of
A) reduction.
B) superordinate causality.
C) generalization.
D) induction.
E) falsification.

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Reduction involves explaining a complex phenomenon in terms of its simpler, more fundamental components. In this case, the complex phenomenon of insomnia is being explained by the simpler, fundamental action of caffeine on brain function.

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