Environmental perception

Question 1

Environmental perception

Answer 1

Perception is the process of receiving information from the environment. It is the process that is at the core of any environmental behavior since it is the source of all information about the environment.

Question 2

Brunswick’s model

Answer 2

In Brunswick’s lens model the perceptual process
receives a scattered array of environmental stimuli which it filters and recombines into an ordered, unified perception.

Question 3

Cognition

Answer 3

The mental process of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment.

Question 4

Environmental cognition

Answer 4

Concerns the way we acquire, store, organize and recall information about locations, distances &
the arrangements in buildings, streets and the outdoors.

Question 5

Cognitive map

Answer 5

A pictorial and semantic images in our head of how places are arrange. E.g: evidence of cognitive mapping is in advertisement, road maps, road sign, in every person’s memory &
thinking etc.

Question 6

Id

Answer 6

Id is the primitive part of the mind that seeks immediate gratification of biological or instinctual needs. The biological needs are the basic physical needs and while the instinctual needs are the natural or unlearned needs, such as hunger, thirst, sex, etc.