We have all had the experience of everyday mistakes like distractedly pouring orange juice into our cereal bowl rather than the milk or inadvertently continuing on our regular route home rather than stopping at the store as we had planned. These so-called "action slips" (Reason, 1984a) are characterized as failures to execute one's intention arising in habitual or highly learned action sequences. This paper argues that a proper understanding of slips, and thus action more generally, requires an understanding of the control structure that implements an agent's guiding intentions. Central to this structure are motor representations that are active downstream of intention and attentional processes that ensure that they reliably implement the intentions they serve.

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哎呀！我又做了一次：日常行动单的心理学

我们都有过日常错误的经历，比如分心地将橙汁倒入我们的麦片碗而不是牛奶中，或者不经意间继续我们的常规回家路线，而不是按照我们的计划在商店停下来。这些所谓的“动作失误”（Reason，1984a）的特点是在习惯性或高度学习的动作序列中无法执行一个人的意图。本文认为，正确理解失误，从而更普遍地采取行动，需要理解实现代理人指导意图的控制结构。这种结构的核心是运动表征，它们在意图和注意过程的下游处于活跃状态，以确保它们可靠地实现它们所服务的意图。