Gozli Experimental Psychology and Human Agency

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-20422-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 202 Seiten, eBook

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 wanderingExperimental 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.

Zielgruppe

Graduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gozli, Davood

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Shifting Focus.- Chapter 2: Experience and Reality.- Chapter 3: Hierarchies of Purpose.- Chapter 4: Rules of a Task.- Chapter 5: What is a Task?.- Chapter 6: Free Choice.- Chapter 7: Sense of Agency.- Chapter 8: Varieties of Disengagement.- Chapter 9: A Reflective Science.

Über Autor(innen)

Davood Gozli  completed his PhD in experimental psychology at University of Toronto. He is currently Assistant Professor of Psychology at University of Macau. He teaches courses on Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology, and History of Psychology. He has been a visiting researcher at Leiden University and University of Vienna.