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.

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

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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.