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- Publisher
- Karger
- Copyright
- © 1980 S. Karger AG, Basel
- ISSN
- 0018-716X
- eISSN
- 1423-0054
- DOI
- 10.1159/000272596
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
This note draws attention to interesting signs of a convergence between environmental psychology – a relative newcomer on the psychological scene concerned with relationships between the physical environment and behavior – and developmental psychology. Such problem areas as privacy and crowding, effects of noise, and formation of mental maps and representation of the spatial world, are emerging as foci for joint attack by environmental and developmental researchers. This trend is examined in relation to the growing interest in ecological approaches to the study of child behavior and development, which, though compatible with certain of the problems being subjected to study by the environmental-developmental alliance, overlaps only partially with the latter. A plea is made for the partial integration of the two, by relating indices of behavior development under controlled conditions to variation in prior environmental experience, sampled across a broad ecologically representative range of conditions.
Journal
Human Development – Karger
Published: Jan 1, 1980
Keywords: Ecology; Environmental adaptation; Human development; Physical environment