Places Sociality and Ecological Psychology Essays in Honor of Harry Heft 1st Edition by Miguel Segundo Ortin, Manuel Heras Escribano, Vicente Raja 1000889734 9781000889734

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ISBN-13 :  9781000889734

Author:  Miguel Segundo Ortin, Manuel Heras-Escribano, Vicente Raja 

This book presents a collection of essays honoring Professor Harry Heft, a leading figure in the field of ecological psychology, engaging critically with his work, thought and influence. Containing 12 chapters written by leading experts from philosophy and psychology, this text critically examines, questions, and expands on crucial ideas from Heft concerning the nature of cognition, its relationship to the body and the environment (including the social and cultural environment), and the main philosophical assumptions underlying the scientific study of psychological functions. It elaborates on the notion of affordance, and its connection to social, cultural and developmental psychology, as well as on the application of Roger Barker’s eco-behavioral program for current psychology and cognitive science. The book includes an extensive interview with Heft, where he reflects about the history, challenges and future of ecological psychology. Finally, it presents a chapter written by Heft, that offers a systematic response to the critical feedback. Given the increasing popularity of ecological psychology and the highly influential work of Harry Heft in related areas such as developmental, social and cultural psychology, and philosophy, this book will appeal to all those interested in the cognitive sciences from a scientific and philosophical perspective. It is also a must read for students of psychology, philosophy, and cognitive science departments.

Places, Sociality, and Ecological Psychology : Essays in Honor of Harry Heft 1st table of contents:

1 Reflections on ecological psychology: An interview with Harry Heft
References
2 The social constitution of ecological psychology in the Netherlands
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The ecological movement in the Netherlands
2.3 The nature of the environment and psychology’s job
2.4 The primacy of the social in a changing world
2.5 Taking experience seriously
2.6 Concluding remarks
Acknowledgments
Note
References
3 Contrary imaginations: Radical empiricism or pragmatism?
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Radical empiricism and/or pragmatism?
3.3 Gibson and the legacy of pragmatism
3.4 Conclusion
Notes
References
4 Perception and problem solving
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The problem solver as perceiver
4.3 Direct perception is based on structure in energy
4.4 Examples of perception in problem solving
4.4.1 The 17 animals problem
4.4.2 Visual proof of the Pythagorean theorem
4.4.3 Stove knobs
4.4.4 Campus navigation maps
4.5 The distributed Gibson
References
5 Conceiving the environment from a developmental perspective: Revisiting Roger G. Barker’s comparison of Bobby Bryant and Raymond Birch
5.1 Introduction
5.2 A functional taxonomy of the environment as an important contribution
5.3 Revisiting the full-day study of Bobby Bryant and Raymond Birch
5.3.1 Analyzing variability
5.4 Drawing variability profiles
5.5 Concluding remarks
References
6 Agency in behavior settings: A mindshaping perspective on ecological psychology
6.1 Introduction
6.2 A primer on behavior settings
6.3 Agency in behavior settings: Heft’s proposal
6.4 In what sense is human agency situated?
6.5 Concluding remarks
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
7 Behavior settings, enabling constraints, and the naturalization of social norms
7.1 Introduction: Behavior settings and ecological psychology
7.2 On behavior settings and norms
7.3 Enabling constraints and behavior settings
7.4 Modeling behavior settings and norms
7.5 Conclusion
Notes
References
8 Values, affordances, and agency: Giving heft to ecological accounts
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Affordances reconsidered
8.3 Values, ecosystems, and cultures
8.4 Agency, language, and responsibility
References
9 Young people’s responses to the Earth’s affordances of regeneration
9.1 Affordances of natural processes
9.2 Understanding young people’s experiences of restoration work
9.3 Reviewing young people’s experiences of restoration activities
9.4 Restoring biodiverse habitat on community lands
9.4.1 Engaging with the land
9.4.2 Perceiving landscape changes
9.4.3 The meaning and value of biodiverse areas
9.4.4 Social aspects of restoration work
9.5 Discussion
References
10 Humanizing ecological psychology: Heft’s incorporation of the sociohistorical into perceiving and acting
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Affordances in the social world
10.3 Embedding affordances within higher order structures
10.4 Restorative spaces
10.5 The role of conceptual knowledge in perceiving and acting in social places
10.6 Conclusion
References
11 Understanding the child’s environment
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Approaches to environmental description
11.2.1 The traditional approach: Formal description
11.2.2 The Heft approach: Functional description
11.2.3 Benefits of functional description for behavioral analyses
11.3 New ways to describe children’s environments
11.3.1 The first-person point of view
11.3.2 Lab versus life
11.4 Conclusion
References
12 Toward a psychological ecology
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Radical empiricism, pragmatism, and realism
12.3 Environments of the developing child
12.3.1 An affordance taxonomy for children’s environment
12.3.2 Children’s environments from a first-person perspective
12.3.3 Other limitations of the affordance taxonomy
12.4 Value properties and affordances
12.5 Behavior settings: Constraints, normativity, and enculturation
12.5.1 Accounting for behavior settings
12.5.2 Social normativity and behavior settings
12.5.3 Social normativity and human development
12.6 System history, psychological restoration
12.7 Brief remarks on other chapters
12.8 Concluding thoughts

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