The studies that represent the positive effect that the natural world has health.
What is biophilia as preventative medicine (p. 139-40)?
100
Hereditary predisposition of a fear leads an individual to...
What is respond almost instantly and subconsciously to subliminal images (p. 142)?
100
The innate tendency to focus upon life and lifelike forms, and in some instances to affiliate with them emotionally.
What is biophilia (p. 134)?
100
Because we have found evidence of a positive effect of the natural world and other organisms on health, biophilia is truly a ________ __________.
What is human instinct (p. 139)?
100
Wilson is a naturalist and a conservationist looking through the lens of a psychologist.
What is point of view?
200
Very few places on land have remained untrodden by human feet.
What is wilderness is a thing of the past (p. 144-45)?
200
A reconnection to the natural world/being in touch with our biophilic instinct can lead to...
What is preventative medicine (p. 140)?
200
Aiming to protect the biosphere to pass on to future generations the best part of the nonhuman world.
What is the conservation ethic (p. 131)?
200
Part of human nature is a residue of bias and mental development that causes us to gravitate back to savannas or their surrogates.
What is humans prefer the savanna (p. 136)?
200
To make a case on environmental stewardship based on human psychology
What is purpose?
300
Responses to biophobic intensities, such as the fear of close spaces, heights, snakes, and blood are acquired by ________ _________?
What is prepared learning (p. 141)?
300
Wilderness is scarce and at risk of being eliminated.
What is wilderness is now worth saving (p. 144)?
300
The responsibility of thinking about the creation and protecting the living planet.
What is stewardship (p. 132)?
300
According to biocentrism...
What is all kinds of organisms have an intrinsic right at least to exist (p. 133)?
300
What psychological need does nature fulfill, and is that a good reason to protect it?
What is Question at Issue?
400
Humans' inclination towards grassy, ground surfaces dotted by trees and copses and bodies of water illustrate that _________ ___________ is a component of biophila.
What is habitat selection (p. 134)?
400
Humans do this because they instinctively want the ancestral habitat of the savanna.
What is the destruction and clearing of land (p. 143)?
400
An ethically potent value that focuses on how organisms have descended from the same distant ancestral life form.
What is the genetic unity of life (p. 131)?
400
Rather than the biophilic instinct implying that the brain is hardwired, psychologists believe that the brain is...
What is predisposed to acquire certain preferences (p.137)?
400
Do not destroy nature because our psyches need it.
What is conclusion?
500
_________________ predisposes us to acquire certain preferences and to undertake practices of later value in survival.
What is the secret places of childhood (p. 138)?
500
A technological future, including genetic engineering and cloning, will lead to...
What is the natural world slipping away (p. 130)?
500
Humans prefer open spaces that correlate with their ancestral environment.
What is the savanna hypothesis (p. 136)?
500
The completely known is a numbing void to all active minds, therefore...
What is humans need mystery (p. 146)?
500
Edward O. Wilson grew up surrounded by destruction in WWII and lived in the countryside.