国外环境心理学研究新进展

New Development of Environmental Psychology Abroad

环境心理学产生于20世纪五六十年代的美国。它反对传统心理学简单的刺激—反应因果论,提出以整体、生态的观点来研究人与环境的交互关系,即人创造环境、赋予环境意义,而环境又鼓励、限制和塑造人的活动和经验,并且校正过去心理学研究过于疏忽环境的观点。强调人类主动处理以及塑造环境的能力,而并非只是被动的接受环境的刺激。本文以环境心理学的基本内容、研究特点、理论观点为线索,介绍国外环境心理学最新进展。

Environmental Psychology is a new discipline which has developed in American about 1960s. It opposed the traditional psychology simple stimulus-response causal theory, put forward as a whole, the ecological point of view to study the interaction of people and the environment, that is,people create an environment to empower the environmental significance, but also encourage the environment, limit and shape the activities and Experience, and correction of negligence over the past psychological research environment point of view. Human take the initiative to deal with stress and the ability to shape the environment, and not just passive acceptance of environmental stimulation. The connotation, the characteristic of environmental psychology as well as the new developmental are the main topics of this thesis.