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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"ecological psychology"”.
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An assessment for religious contexts: An ecological assessment tool for church environments
… literature is reviewed in environmental or ecological psychology. Specifically reviewed are areas of ecological assessment, church environment assessment, and other environmental assessments. Chapter three reports the methodology used to develop the ARC. Chapter 4 provides results concerning …
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He ara whakaora i whaia e atahi wahine i tukinohia = Long term effects of childhood sexual abuse among Maori women: A healing path for abused women
… theoretical synthesis comprising Tikanga Maori, Ecological Psychology, Social Systems theory, and Feminist theory is used to shed light on the participants' narratives. They also identify characteristics of their perpetrators, most were male and all but one was a trusted individual. A culturally …
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Investigating the cognitive foundations of collaborative musical free improvisation: Experimental case studies using a novel application of the subsumption architecture
… with an artificial agent. The research connects ecological musicology and subsumption robotics, and builds upon insights from empirical psychology pertaining to the attribution of intentionality. A distinguishing characteristic of free improvisation is that no over-arching framework of formal …
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Towards Perceptual Augmentation
… that can impact daily life. The study adopts an ecological approach to perceptual augmentation, grounded in Gibsonian ecological psychology. Key principles include providing correct mental models of augmentation devices, leveraging environmental training and natural tasks, emphasizing …
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Ageing and perceptual-based decision-making in traffic environments
… the appropriate course of action. According to ecological psychology, decisions on when and how we act is achieved through the detection of information specifying affordances; the fit between an actor’s action possibilities and their environment. As a result, errors in decision-making may derive …
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The structure of a New Zealand community: An essay in the sociology of place
… town (pop. 1759) in the Auckland region. The ecological approach used by Roger G. Barker and his associates (see for example, Barker, R.G., 1968, Ecological Psychology, Stanford) is used as the starting point for a sociological analysis of the ways in which meaning is embodied in the physical …
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Achieving innovation and development speed in large structured organizations : an ecological view and case study
… presented to guide the discussion, grounded on ecological psychology. Second, a case study (VisionPRO Thermostat) is presented that provides insight in how innovation can work in large structured organizations; in this case, outsourcing and the use of common tools were used as the innovation …
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Understanding drinking behaviour; affordances and an ecological approach to cognition
… representational model of cognition. Gibson’s Ecological approach does not require representation. Meaning exists at the interplay of brain, body and environment in terms of affordances. Contemporary ideas about Ecological psychology and affordances could be used to understand how …
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Extending the human controller methodology in systems- Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA)
… the human operator. Leveraging principles from ecological psychology and basic cognitive models, two new causal-factor categories-flawed detection and interpretation of feedback and the inappropriate affordance of action-were added to the human-controller analysis in STPA for a total of five …
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A Model of Successful Adaptation to Online Learning for College-Bound Native American HIgh School Students
… environment.</p> <p>Within the framework of ecological psychology, findings showed a congruence of students' learning desires and needs and the online learning environment. In participants' local high schools, course offerings were limited. This resulted in boredom and lack of challenge. …
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A Model of Successful Adaptation to Online Learning for College-Bound Native American HIgh School Students
… environment.</p> <p>Within the framework of ecological psychology, findings showed a congruence of students' learning desires and needs and the online learning environment. In participants' local high schools, course offerings were limited. This resulted in boredom and lack of challenge. …
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Training Tastes : A Relationship Approach to Food, Taste and the Senses through the Lens of the Slow Food Movement.
… and sociology, cultural geography and ecological psychology. Furthermore, this thesis introduces storytelling as a way of 'capturing' the evanescent and fleeting character of taste.
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Training tastes : a relationship approach to food, taste and the senses through the lens of the Slow Food Movement
… and sociology, cultural geography and ecological psychology. Furthermore, this thesis introduces storytelling as a way of ‘capturing’ the evanescent and fleeting character of taste.
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IN/VISIBLE: Architecture as Somatic Experience
… theoretical ground, drawing from phenomenology, ecological psychology, and sensory theory—particularly the work of Merleau-Ponty, Pallasmaa, and Gibson—to frame perception as a distributed condition between body and world. ACT II situates this framework within questions of somatic equity and …
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Nature's Manifestation: How Architecture Can Entice Exploration of the American Landscape
… Essays of James J. Gibson (Resources for Ecological Psychology). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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Distance Judgments for Joint Action: The Perceptual Consequences of Anticipated Coordination
<p>Recent perception research has revealed that judgments of distance are influenced by the energetic cost required to perform particular actions, such as walking, across these distances (Proffitt, 2006b). However, this prior research has focused almost exclusively on the perceptual consequences of …
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Processing Speed for Action and Semantic Memory
<p>Previous research suggests that the processing of affordances may require more perceptually relevant information than words can provide (Surber et al., 2018; Chainay & Humphreys, 2002). The present study investigates this hypothesis with the shoebox task used in Bowers and Turner (2003). A list …
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Scottish European tour professionals experiences of playing and developing towards the European tour: through the lens of a constraints-led approach
It has been suggested that sports expertise is the ability of skilled athletes to guide their anticipatory responses by using the available predictive information and being mediated by the constraints placed upon them. It is, therefore, important that, during development, the performance …
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Mapping Learning Ecologies: A Diffractive Exploration of the Emergence of Learning
<p>In this dissertation, drawing on Karen Barad’s theory of agential realism (2007), I explore the learning ecology as a “specific material configuration” that produces learning, an emergent, “onto-epistemological” phenomenon of entangled being-knowing. I offer a new materialist approach to the …