- Title Pages
- PREFACE
- CONTRIBUTORS
- CHAPTER 1 Anterior Cingulate Cortex Contributions to Cognitive and Emotional Processing: A General Purpose Mechanism for Cognitive Control and Self-Control
- CHAPTER 2 Damaged Self, Damaged Control: A Component Process Analysis of the Effects of Frontal Lobe Damage on Human Decision Making
- CHAPTER 3 Working Hard or Hardly Working for those Rose-colored Glasses?: Behavioral and Neural Evidence for the Automatic Nature of Unrealistically Positive Self-Perceptions
- CHAPTER 4 Control in the Regulation of Intergroup Bias
- CHAPTER 5 Integrating Research on Self-Control across Multiple Levels of Analysis: Insights from Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
- CHAPTER 6 Using the Stroop Task to Study Emotion Regulation
- CHAPTER 7 Motivational Influences on Cognitive Control: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
- CHAPTER 8 The Common Neural Basis of Exerting Self-Control in Multiple Domains
- CHAPTER 9 Working Memory Capacity: Self-control Is (in) the Goal
- CHAPTER 10 The Dynamic Control of Human Actions
- CHAPTER 11 Task Switching: Mechanisms Underlying Rigid vs. Flexible Self-Control
- CHAPTER 12 Unconscious Influences of Attitudes and Challenges to Self-Control
- CHAPTER 13 Self-Control Over Automatic Associations
- CHAPTER 14 Perish the Forethought: Premeditation Engenders Misperceptions of Personal Control
- CHAPTER 15 The Power of Planning: Self-Control by Effective Goal-striving
- CHAPTER 16 Unpacking the Self-Control Dilemma and Its Modes of Resolution
- CHAPTER 17 Conflict and Control at Different Levels of Self-Regulation
- CHAPTER 18 Getting Our Act Together: Toward a General Model of Self-Control
- CHAPTER 19 Implicit Control of Stereotype Activation
- CHAPTER 20 Ego Depletion and the Limited Resource Model of Self-Control
- CHAPTER 21 Walking the Line between Goals and Temptations: Asymmetric Effects of Counteractive Control
- CHAPTER 22 Seeing the Big Picture: A Construal Level Analysis of Self-Control
- CHAPTER 23 From Stimulus Control to Self-Control: Toward an Integrative Understanding of the Processes Underlying Willpower
- CHAPTER 24 Self-Control in Groups
- CHAPTER 25 Justice as Social Self Control
- CHAPTER 26 System Justification and the Disruption of Environmental Goal-Setting: A Self-Regulatory Perspective
- CHAPTER 27 Teleological Behaviorism and the Problem of Self-Control
- AUTHOR INDEX
- SUBJECT INDEX
Task Switching: Mechanisms Underlying Rigid vs. Flexible Self-Control
Task Switching: Mechanisms Underlying Rigid vs. Flexible Self-Control
- Chapter:
- (p.202) CHAPTER 11 Task Switching: Mechanisms Underlying Rigid vs. Flexible Self-Control
- Source:
- Self Control in Society, Mind, and Brain
- Author(s):
Nachshon Meiran
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter reviews the historical and current literature on task switching, focusing primarily on cognitive-behavioral studies on healthy human subjects. It outlines what I see to be widely accepted conclusions. These include the notion that tasks have mental representations (“task sets”) and that a change in this representation results in slowing (although the exact reasons for the slowing are debated). Following Ach (2006/1910), the chapter divides the processes that are currently mentioned in the literature into those making an inner obstacle against a task switch (thus causing rigidity) and those that enable a task switch (thus supporting flexibility). It also discusses some major controversies in the field and suggest that many of these controversies are more apparent than real by pointing out the many issues where a broad consensus exists.
Keywords: task switching, flexibility, literature review
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- Title Pages
- PREFACE
- CONTRIBUTORS
- CHAPTER 1 Anterior Cingulate Cortex Contributions to Cognitive and Emotional Processing: A General Purpose Mechanism for Cognitive Control and Self-Control
- CHAPTER 2 Damaged Self, Damaged Control: A Component Process Analysis of the Effects of Frontal Lobe Damage on Human Decision Making
- CHAPTER 3 Working Hard or Hardly Working for those Rose-colored Glasses?: Behavioral and Neural Evidence for the Automatic Nature of Unrealistically Positive Self-Perceptions
- CHAPTER 4 Control in the Regulation of Intergroup Bias
- CHAPTER 5 Integrating Research on Self-Control across Multiple Levels of Analysis: Insights from Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
- CHAPTER 6 Using the Stroop Task to Study Emotion Regulation
- CHAPTER 7 Motivational Influences on Cognitive Control: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
- CHAPTER 8 The Common Neural Basis of Exerting Self-Control in Multiple Domains
- CHAPTER 9 Working Memory Capacity: Self-control Is (in) the Goal
- CHAPTER 10 The Dynamic Control of Human Actions
- CHAPTER 11 Task Switching: Mechanisms Underlying Rigid vs. Flexible Self-Control
- CHAPTER 12 Unconscious Influences of Attitudes and Challenges to Self-Control
- CHAPTER 13 Self-Control Over Automatic Associations
- CHAPTER 14 Perish the Forethought: Premeditation Engenders Misperceptions of Personal Control
- CHAPTER 15 The Power of Planning: Self-Control by Effective Goal-striving
- CHAPTER 16 Unpacking the Self-Control Dilemma and Its Modes of Resolution
- CHAPTER 17 Conflict and Control at Different Levels of Self-Regulation
- CHAPTER 18 Getting Our Act Together: Toward a General Model of Self-Control
- CHAPTER 19 Implicit Control of Stereotype Activation
- CHAPTER 20 Ego Depletion and the Limited Resource Model of Self-Control
- CHAPTER 21 Walking the Line between Goals and Temptations: Asymmetric Effects of Counteractive Control
- CHAPTER 22 Seeing the Big Picture: A Construal Level Analysis of Self-Control
- CHAPTER 23 From Stimulus Control to Self-Control: Toward an Integrative Understanding of the Processes Underlying Willpower
- CHAPTER 24 Self-Control in Groups
- CHAPTER 25 Justice as Social Self Control
- CHAPTER 26 System Justification and the Disruption of Environmental Goal-Setting: A Self-Regulatory Perspective
- CHAPTER 27 Teleological Behaviorism and the Problem of Self-Control
- AUTHOR INDEX
- SUBJECT INDEX