Year: 2008
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: A s described in the first paragraph by Dismukes (chap.19, this volume), a forgotten intention had drastic and tragic consequences for Flight 1141.Without a doubt, all of the crew members, engineers, pilots, and air traffic controllers shared a common goal: to make sure that the plane Hew safely, ensuring the health and welfare of all passengers.However, one intention in aseries of intentions meant to fulfill that goal, namely to prepare the plane for takeoff, was forgotten.Typically in the prospective memory literature,.the term goal is used very seldom and it is memory for intention that is the focus of scholarly inquiry.However, it may be useful to consider the relative obscurity of the term goal in the prospective memory literature as it may reHect that we are missing one pieceof the puzzle.Baldwin (1897; as cited in Olson, Astington & Zelazo, 1'999) defined intentional action in terms of goal-directed behavior.He described it as «the emergeIice of desire, deliberation, and effort: the conscious representation of a goal, the active considermeans accömpanying the selection and execution of a plan (p. 2, Olson et al., 1999).The teqn goal is used to refer to the idea that amental representation of a desired future state is formed and in turn directs behavior to find a way to achieve that state.It may be that the airline employees in 433
Source: KOPS (University of Konstanz)
Authors: Peter M. Gollwitzer, Anna Cohen
Institution: New York University
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1570438426