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Experimental Psychology and Human Agency

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2019
ISBN
978-3-030-20421-1;978-3-030-20422-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3178541 bytes)
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
VIII, 202\206
Time added
2019-09-18 12:19:18

Description

This book offers an analysis of experimental psychology that is embedded in a general understanding of human behavior. It provides methodological self-awareness for researchers who study and use the experimental method in psychology. The book critically reviews key research areas (e.g., rule-breaking, sense of agency, free choice, task switching, task sharing, and mind wandering), examining their scope, limits, ambiguities, and implicit theoretical commitments. Topics featured in this text include: Methods of critique in experimental researchGoal hierarchies and organization of a taskRule-following and rule-breaking behavior Sense of agencyFree-choice tasksMind wandering Experimental Psychology and Human Agency will be of interest to researchers and undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of experimental psychology, cognitive psychology, theoretical psychology, and critical psychology, as well as various philosophical disciplines. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Shifting Focus (Davood Gozli)....Pages 1-16 Experience and Reality (Davood Gozli)....Pages 17-39 Hierarchies of Purpose (Davood Gozli)....Pages 41-62 Rules of a Task (Davood Gozli)....Pages 63-82 What Is a Task? (Davood Gozli)....Pages 83-111 Free Choice (Davood Gozli)....Pages 113-136 Sense of Agency (Davood Gozli)....Pages 137-164 Varieties of Disengagement (Davood Gozli)....Pages 165-189 A Reflective Science (Davood Gozli)....Pages 191-195 Back Matter ....Pages 197-202

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