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cognitive psychology

COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Cognitive Psychology

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Cognitive Failures

At every level of ability , cognitive lapses are unambiguously part of everyone 's life . Some , such as forgetting one 's phone , are merely inconvenient while others are extremely serious such as attention failure which may result in accidents , injuries and loss of life . This basically focuses on lapses that occur everyday as a result of cognitive failures which come as a consequence of absent consciousness or disengagement from ongoing activities such as placing the key in the

br refrigerator , putting salt in tea , losing track of a conversation or slips of tongue . According to Reason , such slips are actions that are not planned (1979 . They are not the only mistakes that people make Many psychologists have classified errors into two types the mistakes that are made as a result of failure in the intention or planning phase and slips that occur during the phase of execution (Norman , 1981 . There are instances when an individual ends up performing an action that he did not intend . Such instances occur frequently and psychologists have attempted to explain their occurrence . My main concern in this is on the slips of action , particularly those of motor action . I will make reference to previous studies that attempt to categorize the various slips . I will also look at the relation between action and intention . It is an interesting fact that at times an individual performs an action that he did not intend such as saying a...

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