Kaplan .:. Cognition and Environment

Kaplan, Stephen und Rachel,
Cognition and Environment. Funcioning in an uncertain world. New York: Praeger, 1982. xiv, 287 Seiten mit Abbildungen, Literaturverzeichnis und Register. Broschur. 235 x 152 mm.

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Bestell-Nr.158444 | ISBN: 0-03-062346-4

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Kaplan | Soziologie | Psychologie | Cognition | Environment

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The interplay of mind and environment is essential to an understanding of human behavior.
Here is the first study to provide a coherent, integrated view of cognition and environmental psychology. It looks at such areas of cognitive functioning as recognition, prediction, evaluation, and action as essential to the analysis of the relationship of human and environment. At the same time, work in environmental areas has important implications for any perspective on cognition that attempts to understand human behavior in a complex, uncertain world. Such apparently disparate issues as how people perceive, what they prefer, how they struggle with adversity, and how participation can be enhanced, all fit together as complementary aspects of a larger picture.
Among the many conclusions the authors draw are:
• Sharing information is a difficult but not hopeless process. While it need not fail, it often does given current practice.
• The frequent conflict between experts and citizens is understandable from a cognitive perspective—and often unavoidable.
• People are competent and ingenious handlers of information, although under unfavorable circumstances they may behave in ways that make this hard to believe.
• In their struggle to cope with difficulty and confusion, the stories people have available for interpreting their experiences are central to achieving a healthy relation to their environment.
This unique work will prove invaluable to students of cognition, and to environmental designers, educators, planners, and managers.

Stephen Kaplan is a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan where he is also a professor of computer and communication sciences and director of the Environmental Studies Program.
Rachel Kaplan is a professor at the School of Natural Resources and in the Urban and Regional Planning Program as well as an associate professor of psychology at the University of Michigan.
They are the authors of Humanseape: Environments for People, and over 90 papers on environment, perception, and behavior.

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