2023
Human Behaviour and Environment
Name: Human Behaviour and Environment
Code: PSI13102L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Psychology
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
- Promote understanding of socio-cognitive processes that underlie the way, on one hand people affect the environment (natural and built) and on other hand, how they are influenced by the environment.
- Promote the competence analysis, intervention and application of theories and concepts to understanding and solving social and environmental problems.
- To train future psychologists to participate and include a level of psychological explanation in works of multi-disciplinary teams targeted for environmental studies.
- Promote the competence analysis, intervention and application of theories and concepts to understanding and solving social and environmental problems.
- To train future psychologists to participate and include a level of psychological explanation in works of multi-disciplinary teams targeted for environmental studies.
Contents
1. THE ORIGIN AND THEORETICAL ROOTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
1.1 Psychological tradition and Environmental Psychology
1.2. The importance of external factors
1.3. The emergence of environmental psychology as a new area of study
1.4. Ecological Psychology - Roger Baker.
2. ENVIRONMENTAL COGNITION AND SOCIO-SPATIAL BEHAVIOR
2.1. Cognitive maps
2.2. Legibility and spatial heuristics
2.3. Personal space and territoriality
2.4. Design for health promotion
3. URBAN ENVIRONMENT AND IDENTITY
3.1. Place attachment and Place Identity
3.2. Residential satisfaction and Relocation
3.3. Institutional environment, School environment and work environment
4. ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS AND RISK PERCEPTION
4.1. Socio-cognitive model of environmental stress
4.2. Perception and evaluation of socio-environmental risks
5. ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
1.1 Psychological tradition and Environmental Psychology
1.2. The importance of external factors
1.3. The emergence of environmental psychology as a new area of study
1.4. Ecological Psychology - Roger Baker.
2. ENVIRONMENTAL COGNITION AND SOCIO-SPATIAL BEHAVIOR
2.1. Cognitive maps
2.2. Legibility and spatial heuristics
2.3. Personal space and territoriality
2.4. Design for health promotion
3. URBAN ENVIRONMENT AND IDENTITY
3.1. Place attachment and Place Identity
3.2. Residential satisfaction and Relocation
3.3. Institutional environment, School environment and work environment
4. ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS AND RISK PERCEPTION
4.1. Socio-cognitive model of environmental stress
4.2. Perception and evaluation of socio-environmental risks
5. ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
Teaching Methods
Expository methods and active methods, including analysis of cases by watching movies and reading text and description of events with environmental and social impact. And yet the critical analysis of scientific articles.
Continuous assessment includes (1) work group presentation and critical analysis of scientific articles (50%); (2) work group presentation of a research Project (50%).
Final Evaluation: (1) individual work presentation and discussion of scientific article (50%) (2) Individual work proposal of a research project (50%)
Continuous assessment includes (1) work group presentation and critical analysis of scientific articles (50%); (2) work group presentation of a research Project (50%).
Final Evaluation: (1) individual work presentation and discussion of scientific article (50%) (2) Individual work proposal of a research project (50%)
Teaching Staff
- Maria de Fátima Campos Bernardo [responsible]
