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| The study of the relationship between people and the everyday social and physical spaces they occupy; this study is interdisciplinary and focuses on reciprocal transactions between places and people |
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| Dysfunctional Environments |
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| Environments that obstruct rather than support needs of occupants |
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| The use of physical features to communicate shared identities |
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| The study of the relationship between organisms and their environment |
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| The study of the relationship between humans and their built, or urban, ecosystems |
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| The study of the relationship between people and the environment |
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| Congruence (person-place fit) |
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| the compatibility of peoples' goals/activities/values/norms and their environment |
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| an environment that encourages socialization and interaction |
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| environments that discourages socialization |
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| environmental demands that exceed our adaptive capacity |
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| demands that exceed the body's ability to cope with those demands |
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| perceived demands that exceed our perceived ability to cope with those demands |
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| environments that individually serve the function of multiple environments (e.g. homes now contain home offices) |
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| Design that is impersonal and discourages socialization |
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| a proposed explanation for a certain phenomenon |
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| a general perspective based on certain assumptions about how to think about and study a phenomenon |
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| Environmental Determinism |
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| the assumption that environments, both physical and social. directly influence human health, development, and behavior |
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| any environmental policy, practice, or directive that differentially affects or disadvantages (whether intended or unintended) individuals, groups, or communities based on race or color; environmental racism is a form of environmental injustice |
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| General adaptation syndrome (GAS) |
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| the body’s short and long term reactions to stress |
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| the ability of a system to resist disorder/maintain order |
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| Differentiation (in systems theory) |
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| systems often develop multiple ways of achieving the same state |
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| people in a specific environment perform certain activities and designated times |
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| a mental representation of the world around us |
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| a mental representation of a spatial environment; a sketch map from memory |
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| the capacity of an physical environment to evoke strong memory or images in an observer; i.e. it is easy to remember |
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| the ease with which the parts of an environment can be recognized and organized into a coherent pattern; how navigable and environment is |
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| Self directed identity claims |
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| symbolic statements made by an occupant for her own benefit and intended to reinforce self views |
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| Other directed identity claims |
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| symbolic statements made by an occupant about how she'd like to be regarded by others |
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| interior behavior residue |
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| physical traces of activities conducted by a person in her immediate environment |
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| Exterior behavior residue |
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| physical traces of activities conducted by a person outside her immediate environment/surroundings |
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| the extent to which a person can handle commitments, feels control over their life, and cope with challenging life events |
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| The process by which people acquire and use information about the spatial environment |
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| Processes by which individuals/groups judge the quality of their surroundings; environmental evaluations are often based on multiple attitudes and beliefs about a place and the people there |
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| The tendency to respond favorably or unfavorably toward one’s surroundings, reflected in one’s emotions, beliefs, and behavior |
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| Judgments made about the quality of specific places; focus on both the physical and social aspects of places, and on people’s preferences for future as well as existing environments; can be made by groups as well as individuals; concerned not only with people’s attitudes toward their present surroundings, but also with their preferences about the shape of future environments |
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| process by which observers are provided with previews of future environments; these include scale model, full scale simulation, dynamic stimulation, etc |
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| The degree to which a setting (1) fosters socialization; (2) provide opportunities for personal development; (3) emphasizes organizational maintenance or change |
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| Recording the physical location and sequence of individuals’ behavior |
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| consistency of responses across multiple tests, respondents, and testing situations |
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| how well it reflects real life; the extent to which a test assessment measures what it claims to measures |
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| a self/other boundary-regulation mechanism that involves personalizing or marketing a place or object and communicating that it is owned by you; Designed to regulate social interaction and to satisfy social and physical needs; Defense responses sometimes occurs when territorial boundaries are violated |
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| An invisible boundary surrounding a person’s body into which intruders may not come |
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| Can regulate our privacy via: eye contact, physical proximity, intimacy of a topic, amount of smiling, etc. |
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| the study of how humans use space |
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| The earth’s natural resources and “ecosystem services” (for instance, nutrient-rich topsoil and unpolluted oceans that yield crops and seafood), grasslands; atmospheric and climatic conditions necessary for life |
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| a form of learning in which an individual's behavior is modified by its consequences |
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| General Adaptation Syndrome |
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| the body’s short and long term reaction to stress; the process of the body’s struggle to maintain balance |
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| Aftereffects of stressors |
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| Physiological, behavioral, cognitive, social, and emotional deficits caused by a stressor, which occur after an individual’s exposure to the stressor has ceased |
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| A syndrome of cognitive, motivational, and emotional disturbances stemming from repeated encounters with uncontrollable events |
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| symptoms of depression and stress that often occur after individuals are involuntary relocated form a highly valued residential environment and unfamiliar area |
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