Chaos theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chaos theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences write by Robin Robertson. This book was released on 2014-07-10. Chaos theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book represents the best of the first three years of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology conferences. While chaos theory has been a topic of considerable interest in the physical and biological sciences, its applications in psychology and related fields have been obscured until recently by its complexity. Nevertheless, a small but rapidly growing community of psychologists, neurobiologists, sociologists, mathematicians, and philosophers have been coming together to discuss its implications and explore its research possibilities. Chaos theory has been termed the first authentic paradigm shift since the advent of quantum physics. Whether this is true or not, it unquestionably bears profound implications for many fields of thought. These include the cognitive analysis of the mind, the nature of personality, the dynamics of psychotherapy and counseling, understanding brain events and behavioral records, the dynamics of social organization, and the psychology of prediction. To each of these topics, chaos theory brings the perspective of dynamic self-organizing processes of exquisite complexity. Behavior, the nervous system, and social processes exhibit many of the classical characteristics of chaotic systems -- they are deterministic and globally predictable and yet do not submit to precise predictability. This volume is the first to explore ideas from chaos theory in a broad, psychological perspective. Its introduction, by the prominent neuroscientist Walter Freeman, sets the tone for diverse discussions of the role of chaos theory in behavioral research, the study of personality, psychotherapy and counseling, mathematical cognitive psychology, social organization, systems philosophy, and the understanding of the brain.
Psychogeometries
Psychogeometries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Psychogeometries write by Conrad Shawcross. This book was released on 2019-01-22. Psychogeometries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first book to consider the conceptual, thematic and material development of Shawcross's art, from the extraordinary machines that marks his emergence in the early 2000s to his most recent projects, which extend the possibilities of art in the public realm, examining the geometries and topologies with which he has experimented, and exploring his ongoing interest in the tension between the rational and the irrational. Psychogeometries is published by Elephant in association with Victoria Miro Gallery.
Chaos And Complexity
Chaos And Complexity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chaos And Complexity write by Michael R. Butz. This book was released on 2018-05-11. Chaos And Complexity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The nature of this book is to emphasize the inherent complexity and richness of the human experience of change. Now, the author believes there to be an acceptable "scientific" explanation for this phenomona. Explored here are 30 years of studies to describe nonlinear dynamics, today termed either chaos theory or complexity theory. The connotations of both theories are discussed at length. Offering social scientists validation in their attempts to describe and define phenomona of a previously ineffable nature, this book explores chaos' implications for psychology and the social sciences. It describes the benefits psychology can glean from using ideas in chaos theory and applying them to psychology in general, individual psycho-therapy, couples therapy, and community psychology, and also considers possible directions for research and application.
Bios
Bios - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bios write by Hector C. Sabelli. This book was released on 2005. Bios available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on a prototype of creative causal processes termed BIOS and how the concept can be applied to the physical world, in medicine and in social science. This book presents methods for identifying creative features in empirical data; studies showing biotic patterns in physical, biological, and economic processes; mathematical models of bipolar (positive and negative) feedback that generate biotic patterns. These studies support the hypothesis that natural processes are creative (not determined) and causal (not random) and that bipolar feedback plays a major role in their evolution. Simple processes precede, coexist, constitute and surround the complex systems they generate (priority of the simple). In turn, complex processes feedback and transform simpler ones (supremacy of the complex).
Psycho-Geometrics
Psycho-Geometrics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Psycho-Geometrics write by Susan Dellinger. This book was released on 1989. Psycho-Geometrics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
