Question

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

Answer 1

idiographic explanation

Step-by-step 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