{"id":8836,"date":"2019-05-22T16:12:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/process\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:12:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:12:02","slug":"process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/process\/","title":{"rendered":"Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Description of how a system changes its spatial or temporal organization or both over time. &nbsp;Consequently, it says nothing directly about the mechanism or mechanisms of change (e.g., in ontogenetic development). &nbsp;In dynamical systems terms, such a descriptor is referred to as an order parameter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"behavior_mechanism\">Behavior mechanism<\/a>, <a href=\"biology\">Biology<\/a>, <a href=\"child_psychology\">Child psychology<\/a>, <a href=\"cognitive_psychology\">Cognitive psychology<\/a>, <a href=\"description\">Description<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_bootstrapping\">Developmental bootstrapping<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_outcomes\">Developmental outcomes<\/a>, Descriptive explanation, <a href=\"dynamical_systems_approaches\">Dynamical systems approaches<\/a>, <a href=\"mechanism\">Mechanism<\/a>, <a href=\"microgenetic_method\">Microgenetic method<\/a>, <a href=\"model_systems\">Model systems<\/a>, <a href=\"ontogenetic_development\">Ontogenetic development<\/a>, <a href=\"order_parameter\">Order parameter<\/a>, Proximal processes<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description of how a system changes its spatial or temporal organization or both over time. &nbsp;Consequently, it says nothing directly about the mechanism or mechanisms of change (e.g., in ontogenetic development). &nbsp;In dynamical systems terms, such a descriptor is referred to as an order parameter.&nbsp; See Behavior mechanism, Biology, Child psychology, Cognitive psychology, Description, Developmental &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/process\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Process&#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-8836","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\/8836","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=8836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}