title: Indeterminacy in psychology.
abstract: There is an irreducible uncertainty in the prediction of human behavior because the dynamics of the brain, as a self-organizing system consisting of many millions of elements, are inherently indeterminate. Thus the Laplacian ideal of universal laws relating knowable causes to predictable effects cannot be realized in psychology.
authors.affiliation: Bishop's University, Qué., Canada.
authors.forename: D D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D003405:Creativity; D006801:Humans; D010553:Personality Development; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012586:Science