NCERT Solutions for Class 12 Psychology Chapter 8 Psychology And Life
Madhya Pradesh Board Class 12 Psychology Solutions Chapter 8 Psychology And Life By StudyEducation NCERT TEXTBOOK QUESTIONS SOLVED 1. What do you understand by the term ‘environment’? Explain the different perspectives to understand the human-environment relationship. Ans. Word ‘environment’ refers to all that is around us. Literally, it means everything that surrounds us including the physical, Social world and cultural environment. In general, it includes all the forces outside the human beings to which they respond in some way. A psycnologist named Stokols proposed three approaches to describe human-environment relationship: (i)The Minimalist Perspective: This view assumes that physical environment has negligible influence on human behaviour. Both run parallel to each other. (ii)The Instrumental Perspective: According to this approach, environment is simply provider. It is for the comfort of us. Human beings can use the environment as per their needs. (iii)The Spiritual Pe...