1. Methodology in Environmental Psychology

2. Methods in Environmental Psychology
Does environmental psychology need unique methodology?
Environmental psychology uses methodology drawn from a variety of different disciplines and areas of psychology:
Clinical psychology
Social psychology
Perception
Sociology
Epidemiology
Geography
Architecture

3. Projective techniques
Methods
Projective techniques
Rationale
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Cognitive mapping (developed by Kevin Lynch, geographer)
Social schemata, figure placement, dolls, cutouts etc.

4. Observational techniques
Methods
Observational techniques
Behaviour mapping
Ecological psychology (Roger Barker)
Self-observational techniques (time budgets, diaries, etc.)

5. Ecological Psychology (Roger Barker)
Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis
Behaviour Settings
Staffing Theory
Overstaffed Setting
Understaffed Setting

6. Methods Unobtrusive measurement Rationale
Triangulation: using different types of measures to see if the same relationship is obtained with both reactive and nonreactive measures. If several imperfect measures provide the same result, then there is confidence that the relationship really exists and is not an artifact of the measurement process. By using both reactive and nonreactive measures, one can estimate the distortion caused by reactivity.

7. Types of Unobtrusive (nonreactive) Measures
Erosion: the wearing away of a substance
Accretion: the depositing of a substance (e.g., litter, fingerprints,)
Archival data: any sort of recorded information (e.g., government records, cartoons, photographs, newspaper articles, public health data, etc.)
“Hardware” assisted observations (e.g., hodometer in art gallery study)

8. Methods
Experimental methods (importance of random assignment of subjects to treatment conditions)
Laboratory
Field