Environmental psychology

Effects of Noise on Health High level of noise can also lead to increase in arousal and stress. Incidences of Diseases related to stress-hypertension such as blood pressure, ulcers etc. would increase as one is exposed to higher levels of more unpredictable and uncontrollable noise. Noise has been linked to spontaneous outbreaks … [Read more...] about Effects of Noise on Physical Health

Definition of Arousal From a neuro-physiological perspective, arousal is a heightening of brain activity, by the arousal center of brain known as reticular formation. One effect of exposure to environmental stimulation is increased arousal. It may be measured physiologically by heightened autonomic activity, such as increase heart rate, blood pressure, respiration rate, … [Read more...] about Arousal approach theory and arousal effects on behavior

Definition of Environmental psychology It may be defined as: … [Read more...] about Definition of Environmental psychology