ABSTRACT
The phrase “psychological ecology” aptly captures the focus of much of author's scholarly work which has been to explore what an ecological approach would mean for the science of psychology. An ecological science requires an in-depth familiarity with the relations among living things and their habitats as they mutually exist apart from experimental interventions. Such an effort presupposes a terminology that captures the basic phenomena and the entities of the domain of study, whether they be plants or animals, prior to the application of abstract formulations or classifications. Moreover, in the absence of an environmental terminology that is attuned to human functioning, applied efforts to design and ameliorate everyday environments in order to support human development and welfare were greatly handicapped. An ecological language commensurate with human everyday life seemed much in need in the design fields as well.
