3.13 Importance of Contextual Variables
To influence or change a psychological event, we must know how things in the environment or context affect the event. We can’t directly change someone else’s psychological events. We can only directly change someone else’s environment. Why? Because we exist in their environment!
Functional Contextualism
| Analytic Goal | Method |
|---|---|
| Prediction and influence of psychological events | Focus on manipulable variables in the context of psychological events |
I do love this approach because it puts focus on what we can actually control.