Simulation and Related Research Methods in Environmental Psychology
Studying components in our environment…
At present, we are only beginning to understand the diverse responses to interactive stimuli and their cognitive representations. We must realize that we cannot avoid studying these interactive characteristics of environmental variables if we wish to accurately predict the effects of complex environments on complex human behaviors.
Simulations are compromises and, as such, display both the advantages and disadvantages that compromises tend to have…
As scientists, we wish to obtain data with considerable precision…
As human beings, we want to obtain data and develop a theory that is directly applicable to the real world and that situation…
This report deals with research methods that attempt to reflect the complexity of the environmental variables to which people are typically exposed when they function in the "real world" — surrounding them in many of their day-to-day activities.
