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Ecology And The Science Of Psychology
Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1966Abstract : The discussion reviews significant, converging developments contributing to the ecologic trend in psychology as well as issues and difficulties that must eventually be resolved. The presentation is focused principally on implications of the ecologic emphasis on content and method in psychology.
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The psychological ecology of the neglectful mother
Child Abuse & Neglect, 1985Interviews were conducted with 152 neglectful mothers and with 154 non-neglectful, who were matched on race, economic status, urban/rural status and other life circumstances. The neglectful mothers reported less support available from informal networks; they also described their neighborhoods as less friendly and helpful than did the controls. However,
N A, Polansky +3 more
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Ecological psychology is one of the main alternative theories of perception and action available in the contemporary literature. This Element explores and analyzes its most relevant ideas, concepts, methods, and experimental results. It discusses the historical roots of the ecological approach.
Segundo Ortín, Miguel +1 more
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International Journal of Psychology, 1977
Abstract Psychologists are becoming increasingly interested in the environment and ecology. At the national level, I am familiar with many groups-both formal and informal-which focus on these topics. I am sure these efforts are duplicated in other countries and at the international level.
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Abstract Psychologists are becoming increasingly interested in the environment and ecology. At the national level, I am familiar with many groups-both formal and informal-which focus on these topics. I am sure these efforts are duplicated in other countries and at the international level.
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On Making Social Psychology More Ecological and Ecological Psychology More Social
Ecological Psychology, 2007J. J. Gibson (1950) was full of surprises. One of those, at least in hindsight, is his claim that the social sciences are badly in need of a theory of human learning.
Bert H. Hodges, Reuben M. Baron
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Ecological Psychology and Social Psychology: Continuing Discussion
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 2011What form would an ideal merger of ecological and social psychology take? Is that ideal attainable? Many researchers and theorists are working to answer these questions. Charles (2009, 2011a) offered insights from E. B. Holt, one of James J. Gibson's mentors, who argued that minds-mental kinds, processes, states, etc.-are observable aspects of the ...
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A psychology of ecology or a psychology of groups?
Behavioral and Brain SciencesAbstract The meaning and effects of one’s ecology should change across life. But how, and why? The target article offers novel and compelling answers to both questions. This is laudable. Yet, this raises a deeper question: what does it mean to think about “ecology”? We offer a potential substitute concept.
Oliver Sng, Peipei Setoh
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Ecological psychology and development
2019The child-environment relationship has many aspects worthy of consideration. The environment provides both a framework and a support on which (or thanks to which) human life develops. This relationship between the child and the environment has been interpreted in very different – sometimes complementary, sometimes contradictory – ways through the ...
Depeau, Sandrine, Pol, Enric
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The Tension Between the Psychological and Ecological Sciences: Making Psychology More Ecological
2013In spite of the fact that psychology has been committed to an evolutionary framework for over a century, ecological approaches to psychology, first proposed several decades ago, continue to be marginalized within the discipline. Considering the shared lineage of evolutionary and ecological thinking, this situation seems paradoxical, and, indeed, it ...
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Ecological Psychology and Naturalism
Theory & Psychology, 1995In this paper, Gibson's ecological approach to perception is discussed as belonging to the tradition of naturalist psychology, which focuses on the adaptive role of the perceptual system, and which includes (assumptions about) the structure of the ecological environment in theories of perception.
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