Read this sentence from “a four-hundred-year-old woman” and answer the question.

my characters can, i hope, transcend the straitjacket of simple psychologizing.

the author has turned the noun psychology into a verb in this sentence by adding the suffixes ize and ing. psychology means "the study of the human mind." what, then, does the verb form most likely mean in this context?

a: to make naive speculations
b: to study with the mind
c: to analyze rigidly
d: to investigate wishfully