Experimental Psychology and Human Agency

<p>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.</p><p>Topics featured in this text include: </p><ul> <li>Methods of critique in experimental research</li> <li>Goal hierarchies and organization of a task</li> <li>Rule-following and rule-breaking behavior </li> <li>Sense of agency</li> <li>Free-choice tasks</li> <li>Mind wandering</li> </ul> <p><i>Experimental Psychology and Human Agency </i>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. </p><div></div>