Topic 10 - When the going gets tough, the tough get going

Question 1

positive psychology movement

Answer 1

emphasizes the study of factors that promote wellbeing

Question 2

ecological unconscious

Answer 2

a sense of interconnectedness between humans and other living things with roots in our ancestral past

Question 3

biophilia hypothesis

Answer 3

humans are born with an “innate tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes”

Question 4

biophobia

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n aversion or overt phobic response to potentially dangerous natural stimuli

Question 5

biophilic architecture

Answer 5

informed by an ethic of environmental sustainability;

takes two primary forms: organic (or naturalistic) and vernacular (or place-based)

Question 6

place attachment

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a feeling of connection to a specific locale

Question 7

sense of place

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communicates more than just a feeling of connection, and encompasses personal identity, meaning, and values associated with the location

Question 8

soliphilia

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a feeling of deep caring and responsibility for a particular bioregion and its inhabitants that may serve as a psychological foundation for sustainable behaviour

Question 9

solistalgia

Answer 9

a melancholic feeling that arises when one’s beloved landscape is threatened by environmental hazards

Question 10

neotenic

Answer 10

babylike features

Question 11

gut-brain axis

Answer 11

bidirectional communication pathway

gut bacteria influence learning, memory, and decision making

Question 12

Restorative Environments

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an environment—often a natural setting—that rejuvenates a person and can help restore depleted attention resources or reduce emotional and psychophysiological stress

Question 13

psycho-evolutionary theory

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A theory of emotion and emotional consequences for cognition, personality, and psychotherapy derived from an evolutionary perspective

Question 14

Attention Restoration Theory (ART)

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restoration as the revived ability to concentrate after mental fatigue

Question 15

directed attention

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deliberate and sustained attention

Question 16

involuntary attention

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automatic attention

Natural settings give directed attention a rest;
because they are innately fascinating, they capture our involuntary (or automatic) attention , which is essentially unlimited, and give directed attention
a chance to become replenished

Question 17

clinical populations

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people who display deficits or distress

Question 18

Nature Therapies

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people with preexisting conditions, such as depression,

experience improved mental wellbeing after spending time in natural environments

Question 19

horticulture therapy

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utilizes gardening to aid people with depression and other illnesses

Question 20

animal assisted therapy

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used to help problems ranging from behavioral disorders in children to dementia in the elderly

animals make good therapists, presumably because of humans’ innate emotional connection to them

Question 21

wilderness therapy

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The oldest form of nature therapy is wilderness immersion

Question 22

ecotherapy

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helping people deal with psychological distress directly related to the ecological crisis, such as worries about climate change

Question 23

nature deficit disorder

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children are missing out on experiences in nature that provide critical developmental support in the form of mental and sensory stimulation, physical challenges, and opportunities for creative play and exploration

Question 24

nature-nurture

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dynamic interactions between inherited and experienced factors

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Playing in Nature

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Where and how children play influences their physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development

Question 26

Learning to Love Nature

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A significant part of a child’s intellectual development
involves learning to name, classify, and discriminate between different objects. As an ever-changing milieu featuring a vast array of stimuli, nature seems an ideal classroom

Question 27

Folkbiology theory

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humans possess an innate tendency to perceive, categorize, and think about living things

Question 28

extinction of experience

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a sense of alienation from nature, and a loss of the

intimacy that motivates concern and conservation

Question 29

environmental generational amnesia

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the phenomenon of each subsequent generation perceiving current environmental conditions as the new normal

Question 30

how to invest in the reciprocal relationship between human and planetary wellbeing

Answer 30

Spend more time outside
Tune in to your surroundings
Learn about your bioregion
Mindfully interact with nature
Practice earth-living skills