User:Matthew M/Week 13 - Environmental

Week 13 - 15/10/08 – Environmental
This was an interesting week as I had never previously even heard of environmental psychology. This topic ‘environmental psychology’ is the study of interactions and relations between people and their environments. The study of this topic seem to have close ties to environmental social sciences, ecological psychology, socio-architecture, environmental design research, behavioural geography and many more. This research started as the investigation of how the environment manages to affect a humans thought feelings and behaviours, however now it has completely changed with investigating how the actions of people manage to affect their environment. The way in which the environment can affect people I have never thought of before. It appears that nature based experiences with animals, nature scenes, and adventure therapy can all have a positive healthy effect on people. A fact I found rather interesting which I read in the lecture notes was that environmental problems are not only the concern of environmental scientists but of psychologists as well because environmental problems are primarily cause by human’s behaviours, feelings and attitudes. It seems that environment has such a great effect on people that with a nature scene for hospital rooms, it can benefit a patient’s recovery. This seems to be an interesting branch of psychology as well as a vital one since the fact that people can so greatly effect the environment, this study must continue in order to ensure that the environment will carry on.