Lesson 1: Listening

Lesson Video

Competence (MLC)

Competence 1:

• Define the concept of conservation psychology and its significance.
• Compare and contrast conservation psychology with environmental psychology.

Competence 2:

• Explain how the global environmental movement of the 1960s shaped environmental psychology.
• Identify and describe common conservation behaviors in everyday life.

1.1 Conservation Psychology

Pre-listening Questions

You are going to listen to a lecture note read about conceptualizing conservation psychology. Read the question and write your answers in your notebook.

1. Before listening to the text, look at the picture above and guess what the listening text will be about. Then, write your ideas in your notebook.
2. What do you think the term “conservation psychology” means?
3. How do you think it differs from “environmental psychology”?
4. How did the global environmental movement of the late 1960s influence the field of environmental psychology?
5. Can you list some examples of conservation behaviors that you are familiar with?