Exam 5: Understanding Individuals Within Environments

What is a key difference between Barker's concept of behavior settings and O'Donnell's concept of activity settings?

An important study of urban African American teen boys found that ____ was the best predictor of school grades.

According to behavior setting theory,underpopulated settings use:

The procedure for measuring settings based on individual perceptions of how settings differ in relationships,personal development,and system maintenance and change.

An important study of urban African American teen boys found that in more risky neighborhoods,teens with ___ parents had higher grades in school,while in less risky neighborhoods,teens with ____ parents had higher grades.

When psychologists study effects of neighborhoods on personal life,abandoned buildings,vandalism,public drug use,and gang activity are examples of ____ .

Which of Kelly's four ecological principles is most involved when students exchange information on professors,campus jobs,or internship opportunities?

Define Kelly's four ecological principles.(Be sure to describe the characteristics of settings,not persons. )Choose a social setting and give your own examples of each of the elements in that setting.

Which perspective largely ignores subjective personal or cultural meanings,cognitions and emotions?

Which of the following has enough persons to fill all social roles needed to sustain the setting?

According to behavior setting theory,optimally populated settings use:

In the planned town of Seaside,what architectural and town design features seem to promote sense of community?

Choose a setting from your own experience and describe it in terms of the ecological concepts of Barker's behavior settings,O'Donnell's activity settings,Kelly's ecological principles,Moos' social climate dimensions,social regularities,and environmental psychology.

Which of the following is true of all these questions: How are contexts both powerful and fragile? How do contexts change over time? How are contexts influenced by culture,ethnicity,and gender?

Which of Kelly's four ecological principles concerns relationships among multiple,interconnected parts or persons in a setting?

Define environmental psychology and two of its emphases.Give your own example of an effect of architecture on social behavior.

Describe the Moos approach to measuring social climates,and the three general dimensions involved (with your own examples of each).Indicate one strength and one limitation of the social climate approach.

Failures of planned town design,such as resistance to central mailboxes and corner stores in Columbia,Maryland,indicate the value of ___ in town or urban planning.

Define Barker's concept of behavior setting,including its three elements.Give your own example.Define one strength and one limitation of Barker's approach.

Environmental psychology is primarily concerned with the relationship of _____ to psychology.