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.

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.