Who among the following emphasized on the behavioural environment in Geography?

Behavioural environment in Geography

Q. Who among the following emphasized on the behavioural environment in Geography?

A. Burton
B. Gregory
C. Kirk
D. Johnston

Answer: Kirk

A behavioural geography is an approach to human geography that examines human behaviour using a disaggregate approach. Behavioral geographers focus on the cognitive processes underlying spatial reasoning, decision making, and behaviour. In addition, behavioural geography is an ideology/approach in human geography that makes use of the methods and assumptions of behaviourism to determine the cognitive processes involved in an individual's perception of our response and reaction to their environment.

Behavioral geography is that branch of human science, which deals with the study of cognitive processes with its response to its environment, through behaviourism.

William Kirk made his own distinctive contribution to geography's intellectual enterprise. In introducing geographers to what he called 'the behavioural environment', he brought perception to the centre stage of geographical investigation by arguing the case for the prime importance of reconstructing the perceived worlds of the cultural groups and individual decision-makers that they studied.