{"id":7783,"date":"2019-05-22T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/dynamic_field_theory\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:00:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:00:36","slug":"dynamic_field_theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/dynamic_field_theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Dynamic field theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A theoretical framework in which ideas from the dynamical systems approach are extended to address how information is processed. &nbsp;The concept of activation is used similarly as in connectionism, but strong interactions within an activation dynamics lead to attractors and instabilities. &nbsp;The application of a dynamic field theory in psychology is not new. &nbsp;In the field theory of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/et-lewin\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.infed.org\/thinkers\/et-lewin&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kurt Lewin<\/a> (1890-1947), a field was defined as the totality of coexisting facts, which are conceived of as being mutually interdependent, with behavior being a function of the field that exists at the time the behaviour occurs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See Activation, <a href=\"attractor\">Attractor<\/a>, <a href=\"connectionism\">Connectionism<\/a>, <a href=\"dynamical_systems_approaches\">Dynamical systems approaches<\/a>, <a href=\"hodology\">Hodology<\/a>, <a href=\"instability\">Instability<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A theoretical framework in which ideas from the dynamical systems approach are extended to address how information is processed. &nbsp;The concept of activation is used similarly as in connectionism, but strong interactions within an activation dynamics lead to attractors and instabilities. &nbsp;The application of a dynamic field theory in psychology is not new. &nbsp;In the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/dynamic_field_theory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dynamic field 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-7783","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\/7783","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=7783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}