CRM 3303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Positive Feedback, State Space, Multistability
3 Apr 2017
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The purpose of the article is to develop a comprehensive model of antisocial development through the application of dynamic system principles. They can be understood as absorbing states that attract the system from other potential states. They represent recurrent pattenrs that eventually stabalize and become increasingly predictable. The deeper the attractor, the more likely the behavior will remain and be resistant to small changes in the environment. State space: model of all possible states a system can attain and is configured by several attractors. Multistability: living systems state space includes several coexisting attractors. Parent-child or peer-child interactions can be conceptualized as dyadic attractors. A dyad is a system with unique properties that are ireeducible to each individual member. For example: state space for a parent child dyad may have multiple attractors like perhaps a playful one, polite one, a hostile one and a disengaged one.
