Overview
- Offers a perspective on experimental psychology that connects it to common sense and lived experience
- Engages closely with major branches of experimental research, including research on the sense of agency, free choice, priming, task switching, task sharing, and mind wandering
- Proposes an understanding of seemingly disparate fields of experimental psychology within a unified and general framework of human behavior
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Keywords
- Experimental Psychology
- Theoretical Psychology
- Conceptual Analysis
- Philosophical Psychology
- Critical Psychology
- Critique of Psychology
- Human Performance
- Attention and Performance
- Human Behavior
- Insight
- Organization of Behavior
- Structure of Behavior
- Phenomenology
- Mind Wandering
- Task Switching
- Creativity
- Norms
- Normativity
- Meaning
- Human Agency
About this book
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 research
- Goal hierarchies and organization of a task
- Rule-following and rule-breaking behavior
- Sense of agency
- Free-choice tasks
- Mind 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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Experimental Psychology and Human Agency
Authors: Davood Gozli
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20422-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20421-1Published: 26 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20424-2Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20422-8Published: 16 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 202
Number of Illustrations: 40 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, Personality and Social Psychology, Phenomenology, Philosophy of the Social Sciences