Question

The type of causal reasoning involved when explaining a single situation in terms of many possible causes is known as ________ explanation.

Answer 1

Answer:

idiographic explanation

Explanation:

Type of causal reasoning is an idiographic explanation  

we know that there are 2 types of  approach for understanding the social life

1. Idiographic  
2. nomothetic  

and here idiographic approach use for understanding single or individual type case or event but a nomothetic approach that is used for understanding large scale social pattern

so here also cause of the single situation is exhaustively examined  

so correct answer is an idiographic explanation