 Introspective psychologists tended to react to this concern in one of three ways. The most concessive approach—recommended, for example, by James (1890 [1981]; see also Mill 1865 [1961]; Lyons 1986)—was to grant Comte’s point for concurrent introspection, that is, introspection simultaneous with the target state or process, and to emphasize in contrast immediate retrospection, that is, reflecting on or attending to the target process (usually a conscious experience) very shortly after it occurs. Since the scientific observation occurs only after the target process is complete, it does not interfere with that process; but of course the delay between the process and the observation must be as brief as possible to ensure that the process is accurately remembered.