PSYC 3450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Internal Validity, Simulation, Environmental Psychology
8 Apr 2013
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Environmental psychology deals with the environment in two levels: concerned with environments as a determent or influence on behaviour and moods. Affordances: possibilities allowed or provided by an environment and are. Environment determines which behaviours are possible strong determinants of behaviour: concerned with the consequences of behaviour on the environment. Summary: how environments influence people; how people influence environment. Environmental psychology: is the study of the molar relationships between behaviour and experience and the built and natural environment. Study of environment-behaviour relationships as a unit. Study of the interrelationship of environment and behaviour. Environmental psychology is problem oriented(trys to solve real world problems) Experimental method: systematically varies an indenpendant variable and measures the effect on a dependent variable. Two forms of control are necessary in experimental research: Only the independent variable is allowed to differ between experimental conditions(it is called confounds when variables other than the one being studied also vary)
