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

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 1992
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
LSN:	0-306-43866-6
Barcode:	9780306438660

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