{"id":7858,"date":"2019-05-22T16:01:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/environment\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:01:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:01:25","slug":"environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In ecology, it is the sum total of biological, chemical and physical factors in some circumscribed area. &nbsp;It really only exists because it is inhabited by an organism. &nbsp;For example, a field is an environment for a horse, its droppings the environment for beetles and their exoskeletons the environment for parasitic mites. &nbsp;Thus, the field compromises a series of overlapping environments. Ecologists use the term interchangeably with habitat or niche. &nbsp;In psychology, following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifecircles-inc.com\/Learningtheories\/gestalt\/Lewin.html\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.lifecircles-inc.com\/Learningtheories\/gestalt\/Lewin.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kurt Lewin<\/a> (1890-1947), there is also a psychological environment,&nbsp;a selective representation of the physical environment and the way in the holder of that representation thinks it determines his or her behavior.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"behavior_genetics\">Behavior genetics<\/a>, <a href=\"context_-cultural-\">Context (cultural)<\/a>, <a href=\"ecological_systems_theory\">Ecological systems theory<\/a>, <a href=\"ecology\">Ecology<\/a>, <a href=\"environment_of_evolutionary_adaptedness\">Environment of evolutionary adaptedness<\/a>, <a href=\"habitat_-ecology-\">Habitat (ecology)<\/a>, Niche (ecology)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In ecology, it is the sum total of biological, chemical and physical factors in some circumscribed area. &nbsp;It really only exists because it is inhabited by an organism. &nbsp;For example, a field is an environment for a horse, its droppings the environment for beetles and their exoskeletons the environment for parasitic mites. &nbsp;Thus, the field &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/environment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Environment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}