Surely you will have heard hundreds of times the little word for us psychologists is a term widely used since we entered the school until we left and we realize their importance because Once outside the classroom, in the real world, we continue to work with her.
also that someone can go to wikipedia to read its meaning, try translate for the rest of us who did not even sound, the meaning of this word in Castilian, is "feedback" , although personally I never liked that translation. Using the Andalusian deep that domain to perfection, the expression "give feedback" could be expressed as "bushing, how am I going?" ... I think I lost the hand with depth.
Finally, after all, give feedback to someone is not more to say as he has done something. Well, this may be so simple, is one of the most powerful tools that We in Psychology at the time of effective communication, coaching processes and what is more important ... change behaviors.
How is this to the wonderful world of environmental psychology?
I answer with a simple experiment carried out recently by a leading design firm in Seattle, where they developed an intelligent system that measured the amount of water flowing through the tap, this result is automatically displayed real-time (key to the feedback function) through a screen placed on the stack.
What do you think was the effect of that feedback? Savings of more than 5 liters of medium to wash our hands. do not know what you look like, but in a modern world with water shortages that we may be a novel idea and efficient way for citizens to save water, right?
It's just a simple example of how something as simple as telling me what I'm doing, can elicit a response capable of modifying our behavior. something similar happens when we call an elevator and not turn the button as you turn car key and will not start, try again, our behavior will be different.
Reorder as ever build on this blog as a bank of ideas and see what you think of, there you have a clear example of using environmental psychology to save water, it is up to you, how can we use the effect of feedback to improve our environment?
And remember ... when you get a response, modify your behavior.
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