ABSTRACT
Jack Wohlwill, who was so deeply involved in both developmental and environmental psychology, was also the scholar who gave the greatest attention to issues involving the relationships between both of these fields. His approach to discussing these relations (Altman & Wohlwill, 1978; Heft, 1988; Heft & Wohlwill, 1987; Wohlwill, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1985a, b; Wohlwill & Heft, 1977, 1987; Wohlwill & van Vliet-1985) has, of course, been a reflection of how he viewed each of these sub-areas of psychology. In many ways, Wohlwill’s approach stands in striking contrast to our own holistic, developmental, systemsoriented perspective (Wapner, 1987a, Wapner & Demick, 1990) which is an outgrowth of Werner’s (1940/1957a, 1957b) comparative-developmental theory.
