Author(s)

Yue Hu ¹, Hai Huang ²

Affiliation(s)

¹ Student Mental Health and Counseling Center, Sichuan International Studies University, Chongqing, 400031, China
² Research Center for Psychological and Health Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China

Corresponding Author

Yue Hu

ABSTRACT

People in daily life often show some behavior errors. For example, you are in the familiar street on the wrong direction, these phenomena that cognitive-based mistakes on simple tasks that a person normally should be capable of completing without error are known as cognitive failures. We summarize the four main theoretical explanations about cognitive failure: perceptual load theory, executive-attention theory, overload theory and complaint hypothesis. The purpose of this study is to provide some inspirations and references for the follow-up study.

KEYWORDS

Cognitive Failure; Executive-attention; Overload Theory; Complaint Hypothesis

CITE THIS PAPER

Yue Hu, Hai Huang, The Theoretical Explanations of Cognitive Failures in Daily Life. Applied & Educational Psychology (2023) Vol. 4: 28-32. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/appep.2023.040506.

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