Contemporary Ideas in Physics and Biology in Gottlieb's Psychology

Handbook of Developmental Science, Behavior, and Genetics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 166-202

  Partridge, Ty ^a   Greenberg, Gary ^b  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative psychology, study of origins of behavior and general psychology; Conceptual foundations of gene theory; Contemporary ideas in physics and biology in Gottlieb's psychology; Emergence, self organization and hierarchy; Gilbert Gottlieb, probabilistic epigenesist and developmental systems theory; Increasing complexity, phenomenon of second of law of evolution after natural selection; Nonlinear dynamics, lexicon of concepts change processes over time; Phase transition, resulting in new and more complex levels of organization; Social interaction of groups of animals role in organizing and regulating behavior; Universe, as a family of hierarchies in which natural phenomena exist

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EID: 84859370556     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444327632.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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