Glossary E
Glossary E
Deutsch: Umwelt / Español: Entorno / Português: Ambiente / Français: Environnement / Italiano: Ambiente /
Our Environment is the complex of factors (those of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere) that act upon an organism or ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival.
Environment ("Nurture") is defined as the sum of all external conditions affecting development, including especially the effects of learning.
Environmental assessment is defined as the measurement and analysis of the effects an environment has on the behavior and perceptions of people within that environment.
Environmental assessment scales refer to measures of key environmental dimensions hypothesized to influence behavior.
Environmental crimes refer to violations of the criminal law which, although typically committed by businesses or by business officials, may also be committed by other persons or organizational entities, and which damage some protected or otherwise significant aspect of the natural environment.
Environmental criminology refers to an emerging perspective which emphasizes the importance of geographic location and architectural features as they are associated with the prevalence of criminal victimization.
- Environmental dependency syndrome (stimulusbound) : Environmental dependency syndrome (stimulusbound) refer to the Neuropsychological syndrome characterized by an over-responsiveness to environmental stimuli due to a loss of inhibitory control, usually as a consequence of bilateral frontal damage.
Environmental determinism is defined as the type of determinism that stresses causes of behavior that are external to the organism.
Environmental determinism is the notion that children are passive creatures who are molded by their environments.