Environmental psychology | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-05-15

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00:03:35 1 History
00:05:53 2 Orientations
00:06:03 2.1 Problem oriented
00:11:06 2.1.1 Personal space and territory
00:13:12 2.2 Systems oriented
00:13:52 2.3 Interdisciplinary oriented
00:15:05 2.4 Space-over-time orientation
00:16:45 3 Concepts
00:16:55 3.1 Place identity
00:20:36 3.2 Place attachment
00:23:01 3.3 Environmental consciousness
00:25:10 3.4 Behavior settings
00:28:27 4 Applications
00:28:37 4.1 Impact on the built environment
00:31:36 4.2 Organizations
00:33:55 5 Challenges
00:36:24 6 University courses
00:44:57 7 Other contributors



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Environmental psychology is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on the interplay between individuals and their surroundings. It examines the way in which the natural environment and our built environments shape us as individuals. The field defines the term environment broadly, encompassing natural environments, social settings, built environments, learning environments, and informational environments.
Environmental psychology was not fully recognized as its own field until the late 1960s when scientists began to question the tie between human behavior and our natural and built environments. Since its conception, the field has been committed to the development of a discipline that is both value oriented and problem oriented, prioritizing research aimed at solving complex environmental problems in the pursuit of individual well-being within a larger society. When solving problems involving human-environment interactions, whether global or local, one must have a model of human nature that predicts the environmental conditions under which humans will respond well. This model can help design, manage, protect and/or restore environments that enhance reasonable behavior, predict the likely outcomes when these conditions are not met, and diagnose problem situations. The field develops such a model of human nature while retaining a broad and inherently multidisciplinary focus. It explores such dissimilar issues as common property resource management, wayfinding in complex settings, the effect of environmental stress on human performance, the characteristics of restorative environments, human information processing, and the promotion of durable conservation behavior. Lately, alongside the increased focus on climate change in society and the social sciences and the re-emergence of limits-to-growth concerns, there has been increased focus on environmental sustainability issues within the field.This multidisciplinary paradigm has not only characterized the dynamic for which environmental psychology is expected to develop. It has also been the catalyst in attracting other schools of knowledge in its pursuit, aside from research psychologists. Geographers, economists, landscape architects, policy-makers, sociologists, anthropologists, educators, and product developers all have discovered and participated in this field.Although "environmental psychology" is arguably the best-known and most comprehensive description of the field, it is also known as human factors science, cognitive ergonomics, ecological psychology, ecopsychology, environment–behavior studies, and person–environment studies. Closely related fields include architectural psychology, socio-architecture, behavioral geography, environmental sociology, social ecology, and environmental design research.