concept of determinism comes from the Latin word determino - defines in the most general sense is a kind of law-governed conditionality of all events and phenomena occurring in nature and society.This category is widely used in the description and analysis of the various phenomena in a wide range of sciences and in ordinary people's minds.For this reason, treated and interpreted the principle of determinism quite widely, depending on the scope of scientific knowledge, to which it is applied, as well as of the methodological basis on which to build the cognitive and analytical work of the researcher.
principle of determinism in philosophy is the doctrine according to which any fact of life, any phenomenon in nature is quite natural reason for his appearance and existence.In this sense, the principle of determinism is opposed to indeterminism, which implies a picture of a universe in which everything is possible and that there is no rational explanation.The simplest form of causality can display pattern: cause - effect, while this pattern has the following properties:
- the time sequence in which the cause always precedes the effect;
- the reason is always the generating factor in relation to the investigation;
- continuity, according to which any consequence occurs after the cause immediately without time interval;
- irreversibility is a unique relationship, that is the reason can not be a cause of reason, if it is already a reason for the investigation, in the course of the causality, the cause can not take the place of the investigation, but any event can be both a cause and a consequence;
- necessity and universality suggest that under the same conditions of the event, one of the properties of reason, naturally and inevitably gives rise to the same effect.
principle of determinism in psychology appears, based on their interpretation and understanding of the philosophical and scientific paradigm is, according to which all phenomena are not random and are very specific reason.Applied psychology is reflected in the fact that mental phenomena are mediated by factors that gave rise to them and that affect their existence.Here the principle of determinism is seen as the genesis of a pattern of mental and psychological phenomena by any reason, prior to the emergence of these phenomena.It is assumed that the time sequence in the event of cause and effect does not exhaust all the characteristics of determinism.The principle of determinism may be manifested as a system, that is, when the properties of the individual elements of the system are mediated properties of the system as a whole.Statistical shape implies that the action of the same reasons, there may be deviations in the form and other consequences occur.
previously dominant method in psychology has been focus on the mechanistic form of manifestation of determinism, according to which he was seen as manifestations of mental conditioning material factors.This approach has contributed to the development of knowledge about reflexes, deviant behavior, affect, etc.But in general, this approach is limited, as only considers external disturbances as causes of mental phenomena.
Turning ideas natural scientific determinism in psychology contributed, firstly, the transformation of psychology into an independent scientific knowledge, and secondly, it focuses on the study of the methodology of determinism their domestic laws governing the formation of causality.
