1 - Intro Flashcards
How is the environment experienced?
As a unitary field
Study of Transactions between individuals and the physical setting
Eco Psy
Th person has what properties
Environmental and individual
The environment operates at what level of awareness
Below its level
Eco Psy’s been on the edge of Psych bc
Rarely received serious attention in Psych
Not taught in every college
Still not part of psych’s core
First person to use the term in print
Egon Brunswik (1943)
Brunswik’s ideas originally concentrated on
The process of perception
Brunswik made contributions to
Functionalism
Bruns asserted that the organism’s environment is
An uncertain and probabilistic one
Using probabilistic uncertain evidence to achieve goals
Using proximal cues
Brunswik coined the term
Ecological validity
First behavioral system founded in probabilism
Probabilistic functionalism
Born in Prussia, trained in Germany
Kurt Lewin
One of the theories to give consideration to the molar physical environment
Field theory
Linking scientific research with real social change
Lewin’s idea of action research
One of the edge of Lewin’s legacy
Environmental Psych
Field theory is influenced by
Gestalt Psych
Field Theory emphasized on
Individual personalities
Interpersonal conflict
Situational variables
Field theory had a major impact on social psych and had the notion that
Individual traits and the environment interact to cause behavior
Author of the book Geopsyche
Willy Hellpach
After what major event caused the demand for social psych’s development and particularly on
World war 2
Attitude change
Small group processes
Intergroup conflict
Gibsonian Psych is more
More Philosophical. Eco Psych
Gibsonian psych concentrated more on
Cognition
Barker
Envi Psy
Accdg to Barker human beh was
Heavily situated so it’s difficult to predict
Gibsonian Psych argued that animal and humans stand in a ____ relations w the env
Systems relation
Stimulation theories conceptualize that
Physical env is a source of sensory information crucial to our welfare
Significant ways env simulation can vary
In amount
Meaning to each person
3 simulation based theories
Adaptation level
Arousal
Overload
A-L theory claims that (2)
No particular amount of stimulation is food for everyone
Stimulation different from one’s A-L could cause change in beh and feelings
Arousal theory says that
Beh and experience relate to how physiologically aroused we are
Overload theory
Effects of too much stimulation
5 more theories
Control Beh-setting Integral Operant App Environment-centered app
Concept based on Barker’s eco osy
Behavior-setting
Consistent prescribed patterns of beh
Programs
Captures the full complexity of everyday person-environment relations
Integral theories
Isidor Chein’s integral theory
Description of the geo-behavioral env
Chein’s 5 elements of his integral framework
Instigators Goal OBJECTs and noxients Supports and constraints Directors Global environment
Instigators are
External env that instigate certain beh
GO and Nox are
Situations that can satisfy needs or produce pain
Directors are
Features of env that tells us what to do (proximal cues + programs????)
Global env are
General characteristics of env
Operant approach’s goal
Modify beh of someone who causes environmental problems
E-c app
Pay attention to state or quality of environment
Preserving conserving and helping natural env
Green psych
Brunswik’s ideas originally concentrated on
The process of perception
Brunswik made contributions to
Functionalism
Bruns asserted that the organism’s environment is
An uncertain and probabilistic one
Using probabilistic uncertain evidence to achieve goals
Using proximal cues
Brunswik coined the term
Ecological validity
First behavioral system founded in probabilism
Probabilistic functionalism
Born in Prussia, trained in Germany
Kurt Lewin
One of the theories to give consideration to the molar physical environment
Field theory
Linking scientific research with real social change
Lewin’s idea of action research
One of the edge of Lewin’s legacy
Environmental Psych
Field theory is influenced by
Gestalt Psych
Field Theory emphasized on
Individual personalities
Interpersonal conflict
Situational variables
Field theory had a major impact on social psych and had the notion that
Individual traits and the environment interact to cause behavior
Author of the book Geopsyche
Willy Hellpach
After what major event caused the demand for social psych’s development and particularly on
World war 2
Attitude change
Small group processes
Intergroup conflict
Gibsonian Psych is more
More Philosophical. Eco Psych
Gibsonian psych concentrated more on
Cognition
Barker
Envi Psy
Accdg to Barker human beh was
Heavily situated so it’s difficult to predict
Gibsonian Psych argued that animal and humans stand in a ____ relations w the env
Systems relation
Stimulation theories conceptualize that
Physical env is a source of sensory information crucial to our welfare
Significant ways env simulation can vary
In amount
Meaning to each person
3 simulation based theories
Adaptation level
Arousal
Overload
A-L theory claims that (2)
No particular amount of stimulation is food for everyone
Stimulation different from one’s A-L could cause change in beh and feelings
Arousal theory says that
Beh and experience relate to how physiologically aroused we are
Overload theory
Effects of too much stimulation
5 more theories
Control Beh-setting Integral Operant App Environment-centered app
Concept based on Barker’s eco osy
Behavior-setting
Consistent prescribed patterns of beh
Programs
Captures the full complexity of everyday person-environment relations
Integral theories
Isidor Chein’s integral theory
Description of the geo-behavioral env
Chein’s 5 elements of his integral framework
Instigators Goal OBJECTs and noxients Supports and constraints Directors Global environment
Instigators are
External env that instigate certain beh
GO and Nox are
Situations that can satisfy needs or produce pain
Directors are
Features of env that tells us what to do (proximal cues + programs????)
Global env are
General characteristics of env
Operant approach’s goal
Modify beh of someone who causes environmental problems
E-c app
Pay attention to state or quality of environment
Preserving conserving and helping natural env
Green psych
