0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology

Buy Now

Experimental Slips and Human Error - Exploring the Architecture of Volition (Hardcover, 1992 ed.) Loot Price: R4,562
Discovery Miles 45 620
Experimental Slips and Human Error - Exploring the Architecture of Volition (Hardcover, 1992 ed.): Bernard J. Baars

Experimental Slips and Human Error - Exploring the Architecture of Volition (Hardcover, 1992 ed.)

Bernard J. Baars

Series: Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R4,562 Discovery Miles 45 620 | Repayment Terms: R428 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

Whereas most humans spend their time trying to get things right, psycholo gists are perversely dedicated to error. Errors are extensively used to in vestigate perception, memory, and performance; some clinicians study errors like tea leaves for clues to unconscious motives; and this volume presents the work of researchers who, in an excess of perversity, actually cause people to make predictable errors in speech and action. Some reasons for this oddity are clear. Errors seem to stand at the nexus of many deep-psychological questions. The very concept of error presupposes a goal or criterion by comparison to which an error is an error; and goals bring in the foundation issues of control, motivation, and volition (Baars, 1987, 1988; Wiener, 1961). Errors serve to measure the quality of performance in learning, in expert knowledge, and in brain damage and other dysfunctional states; and by surprising us, they often call attention to phenomena we might otherwise take for granted. Errors also seem to reveal the "natural joints" in perception, language, memory, and problem solving-revealing units that may otherwise be invisible (e. g., MacKay, 1981; Miller, 1956; Newell & Simon, 1972; Treisman & Gelade, 1980)."

General

Imprint: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
Country of origin: United States
Series: Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics
Release date: November 2003
First published: 1992
Editors: Bernard J. Baars
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 346
Edition: 1992 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-0-306-43866-0
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General
Promotions
LSN: 0-306-43866-6
Barcode: 9780306438660

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Cognitive Psychology - EMEA Edition
E. Bruce Goldstein, Johanna C. van Hooff Paperback R1,399 R1,199 Discovery Miles 11 990
Cognitive Psychology
Robert Sternberg, Karin Sternberg Hardcover  (4)
R1,624 Discovery Miles 16 240
Fully Human - A New Way Of Using Your…
Steve Biddulph Paperback  (1)
R467 R427 Discovery Miles 4 270
Maps Of Meaning - The Architecture Of…
Jordan B. Peterson Paperback  (3)
R1,597 R1,048 Discovery Miles 10 480
Risk Savvy - How to Make Good Decisions
Gerd Gigerenzer Paperback  (1)
R336 R305 Discovery Miles 3 050
Thinking, Fast And Slow
Daniel Kahneman Paperback  (3)
R330 R305 Discovery Miles 3 050
The Power Of Strangers - The Benefits Of…
Joe Keohane Hardcover R405 Discovery Miles 4 050
Music and the Aging Brain
Lola Cuddy, Sylvie Belleville, … Paperback R3,226 Discovery Miles 32 260
Current Topics in Language, Volume 68
Kara D. Federmeier, Duane Watson Hardcover R3,309 Discovery Miles 33 090
International Review of Research in…
Robert M. Hodapp, Deborah J. Fidler Hardcover R4,785 Discovery Miles 47 850
Service Delivery Systems for Individuals…
Meghan M. Burke Hardcover R4,792 Discovery Miles 47 920
Cerebral Lateralization and Cognition…
Gillian Forrester, Kristelle Hudry, … Hardcover R6,598 Discovery Miles 65 980

See more

Partners