Experimental Slips and Human Error Exploring the Architecture of Volition

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 present...

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Other Authors: Baars, Bernard J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1992, 1992
Edition:1st ed. 1992
Series:Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I: Introduction
  • 1: The Many Uses of Error: Twelve Steps to a Unified Framework
  • II: Theoretical Approaches
  • 2: Errors, Ambiguity, and Awareness in Language Perception and Production
  • 3: Cognitive Underspecification: Its Variety and Consequences
  • 4: A New Ideomotor Theory of Voluntary Control
  • 5: Opportunistic Planning and Freudian Slips
  • III: Methods for Inducing Predictable Slips in Speech and Action
  • 6: A Dozen Competing-Plans Techniques for Inducing Predictable Slips in Speech and Action
  • 7: Laboratory Induction of Nonspeech Action Errors
  • 8: The Reliability and Replicability of Naturalistic Speech Error Data: A Comparison with Experimentally Induced Errors
  • 9: General and Specific Factors in “Transformational Errors”: An Experimental Study
  • IV: Findings and Theory Derived from Induced Slips
  • 10: Errors in Inner Speech
  • 11: Error-Minimizing Mechanisms: Boosting or Editing?
  • 12: Some Caveats on Testing the Freudian Slip Hypothesis: Problems in Systematic Replication
  • V: Commentary
  • 13: The Psychology of Slips