Table 1 Theories, models, and perspectives in environmental psychology [15]; edited by Dalia M. Rasmi (author) 2021
From: Towards forming a socio-ecological action model for urban open spaces’ design in New Cairo, Egypt
Theories and models | Theorist | Major premise | |
|---|---|---|---|
01 | Social learning theory | Albert Bandura | Determines that we learn by first observing others and reproducing their actions. |
02 | Integration theory | Anne Treisman and Garry Gelade | Elements of the environment work in harmony to facilitate a particular behaviour. |
03 | Control theory | Walter Reckless | Group of theories that address behavioural constraints and a person’s perceived control over his or her actions and behaviours. |
04 | Behaviour setting theory | Roger Barker | Public places or settings evoke certain patterns of behaviour. |
05 | Stimulation theory | Nick Bostrom | Environment is a source of sensory information (stimuli) that leads to arousal. |
06 | Lens model | Kennth Hammond | Stimuli from the environment become focused through our perceptions. |
07 | Affordances | James Gibson | The world is composed of substances, surfaces, and textures, the arrangement of which provides recognizable function of environmental features. |
08 | Collative prosperities | Daniel Berlyne | We respond to aesthetics based on their collative properties. |
09 | Pleasure-arousal-dominance hypothesis | Mehrabian and Russell | Three primary emotional responses are translated to positive feelings, excitement, and control over the setting with pleasure and arousal as the two main axes. |
10 | Preference model | Lichtenstein and Slovic | People prefer engaging scenes to boring scenes. |
11 | Elements of legibility | Kevin Lynch | Five predominating qualities enhance its legibility to the average person. |