{"id":7474,"date":"2019-05-22T15:57:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/chaos_theory\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:57:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:57:16","slug":"chaos_theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/chaos_theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaos theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Established in 1961 by the meteorologist <a href=\"ftp:\/\/texmex.mit.edu\/pub\/emanuel\/PAPERS\/Lorenz_Edward.pdf\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"ftp:\/\/texmex.mit.edu\/pub\/emanuel\/PAPERS\/Lorenz_Edward.pdf&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edward N. Lorenz<\/a> in attempting to forecast weather systems, it is a branch of mathematics termed non-linear dynamics that focuses on irregular and complex behavior that never has an underlying order, and on events and processes that cannot be predicted, except over the short term. &nbsp;Its establishment ended the long-term association between classical determinism and predictability. &nbsp;The mathematical tools of chaos theory have been applied to analysing brain activity (e.g., by means of EEG) and the spontaneous movements of human infants.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"catastrophe_theory\">Catastrophe theory<\/a>, <a href=\"chaos\">Chaos<\/a>, <a href=\"control_parameter\">Control parameter<\/a>, <a href=\"determinism\">Determinism<\/a>, <a href=\"fractals\">Fractals<\/a>, <a href=\"irreversible_thermodynamics\">Irreversible thermodynamics<\/a>, <a href=\"non-linear_dynamics\">Non-linear dynamics<\/a>, <a href=\"order\">Order<\/a>, <a href=\"prediction_and_explanation\">Prediction and explanation<\/a>, Synergetics<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Established in 1961 by the meteorologist Edward N. Lorenz in attempting to forecast weather systems, it is a branch of mathematics termed non-linear dynamics that focuses on irregular and complex behavior that never has an underlying order, and on events and processes that cannot be predicted, except over the short term. &nbsp;Its establishment ended the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/chaos_theory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chaos theory&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}