Ebook: Experimental Slips and Human Error: Exploring the Architecture of Volition
- Tags: Cognitive Psychology, Linguistics (general), Languages and Literature
- Series: Cognition and Language
- Year: 1992
- Publisher: Springer US
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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).
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Many Uses of Error....Pages 3-34
Front Matter....Pages 35-37
Errors, Ambiguity, and Awareness in Language Perception and Production....Pages 39-69
Cognitive Underspecification....Pages 71-91
A New Ideomotor Theory of Voluntary Control....Pages 93-120
Opportunistic Planning and Freudian Slips....Pages 121-125
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
A Dozen Competing-Plans Techniques for Inducing Predictable Slips in Speech and Action....Pages 129-150
Laboratory Induction of Nonspeech Action Errors....Pages 151-193
The Reliability and Replicability of Naturalistic Speech Error Data....Pages 195-215
General and Specific Factors in “Transformational Errors”....Pages 217-233
Front Matter....Pages 235-236
Errors in Inner Speech....Pages 237-262
Error-Minimizing Mechanisms....Pages 263-287
Some Caveats on Testing the Freudian Slip Hypothesis....Pages 289-313
Front Matter....Pages 315-315
The Psychology of Slips....Pages 317-339
Back Matter....Pages 341-346
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Many Uses of Error....Pages 3-34
Front Matter....Pages 35-37
Errors, Ambiguity, and Awareness in Language Perception and Production....Pages 39-69
Cognitive Underspecification....Pages 71-91
A New Ideomotor Theory of Voluntary Control....Pages 93-120
Opportunistic Planning and Freudian Slips....Pages 121-125
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
A Dozen Competing-Plans Techniques for Inducing Predictable Slips in Speech and Action....Pages 129-150
Laboratory Induction of Nonspeech Action Errors....Pages 151-193
The Reliability and Replicability of Naturalistic Speech Error Data....Pages 195-215
General and Specific Factors in “Transformational Errors”....Pages 217-233
Front Matter....Pages 235-236
Errors in Inner Speech....Pages 237-262
Error-Minimizing Mechanisms....Pages 263-287
Some Caveats on Testing the Freudian Slip Hypothesis....Pages 289-313
Front Matter....Pages 315-315
The Psychology of Slips....Pages 317-339
Back Matter....Pages 341-346
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