- 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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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Shifting Focus
Pages 1-16
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Experience and Reality
Pages 17-39
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Hierarchies of Purpose
Pages 41-62
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Rules of a Task
Pages 63-82
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What Is a Task?
Pages 83-111
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Experimental Psychology and Human Agency
- Authors
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- Davood Gozli
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-20422-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-20422-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-20421-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-20424-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 202
- Number of Illustrations
- 40 b/w illustrations
- Topics
