Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Environmental psychology
- Definition
- Interdisciplinary research of the influence of the
environment on behaviour, holistic perspective,
qualitative observational methodology combined with
quantitative techniques
- Evolution
- Firts birth
- Hellpach :
Psychologie der
Umwelt
- Environment
–Umwelt– exerts a
threefold influence
on people
- Second birth
- American transition
- More experimental and
academic
- 5. Lewin
- ecological
psychology,
"life space",
participatory
research
- 6. Environmental
perception
- Correspondence
between physical
environment and the
perception we have of
it (Bonnes &
Secchiarioli, 1995)
- 1. Brunswik “environmental probability” (1943)
- 2. Gibson: people perceive directly the meaning of the environment
- 3. Ames: individuals have an active role and build their perception
- 7. Cognitive mappings
- Tolman: rats create
“mental” maps
- Midwest Psychological Field Station:
studying people’s behaviour under natural
conditions. (Founded by Barker & Wright)
- 1.Personal space
- 1.1. Stern's idea
1.2. Hans &
Martha Muchow:
environment of
young people
- 2.Gestalt Psychology
- 2.1. Holistic viewpoint to
account for behaviour
2.2. Koffka
- 3.Urban psychology
- 3.1. Modern Architecture
- 3.2. Chicago School of Sociology
- growth of cities and
deviant behaviour
- Concern for the
transitional society.
habitat, the city
- George Simmel
- urban issues and
symbolic interactionism
- 4. Work Psychology
- Psychothechnik
(William Stern in 1903)
- Marie Jahoda: Labour
psychology
- Third Phase
- Architectural
psychology
- Fourth phase
- Environmental
psychology for
sustainability
- pro environmental behaviors
- Ecological Self
- Social dimension, collective
interdependences