ABSTRACT
The present status of environmental psychology can be described as the invasion of an array of relatively distinct and mature research traditions, currently viable within scientific psychology, into the domain of person-environment relations (Craik, 1977). Each of these strands of normal science, guided by exemplary achievements and an agreed upon agenda of research, has discovered engaging puzzles and opportunities for paradigm extension and articulation within this new context (Kuhn, 1970; Masterman, 1970). This pattern is illustrated by such enterprises as: (1) ecological psychology; (2) environmental perception; (3) environmental assessment; (4) personality and the environment; (5) environmental cognition; (6) analysis of functional adaptations, and a number of other directions of research, many of them conducted through interdisciplinary collaboration with architecture, education, geography, landscape and regional planning, resources management, urban design, political science, social ecology, and sociology (Craik, 1973; Stokols, 1978). In order to focus discussion, primary attention will be given here to developments in environmental assessment but some note will be taken of ecological psychology and of environmental perception and cognition.
