PSYC 213 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Mammography, Metacognition, Information Foraging
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Central concern of applied cognitive psychology: discover ways to the tendency we all have to make errors in various situations. Activation-trigger-schema theory: there can be several schemas for different kinds of action, and more than one schema can be activated at the same time. schemas may be inappropriately activated, resulting in attentional errors. Oops i did it again effect: a habitual sequence of action continues to operate without much attention, and a newer, intended action sequence never gets activated. Participants are very poor at remembering to do a postponed task. Understand errors by classifying them in terms of possible sources of error: errors due to faulty formulation of intentions. Mode errors: carrying out an action that would be appropriate for one situation, but not for the situation in which we happen to find ourselves. E. g. trying to take off eyeglasses when not actually wearing them, pick up the phone and say come in .