2.3 What is Environment What Is Environment? Anne Anastasi has defined the concept of environment thus, “The environment is everything...
2.3 What is Environment
What Is Environment?
Anne Anastasi has defined the concept of environment thus, “The environment is everything that affects the individual except his genes.”
Types of Environment
(i) Internal environment- All the conditions come under internal environment which an individual gains in the womb of mother. Cells, chromosomes, genes are the parts of heredity and covered by cytoplasm. It is called intra cellular environment.
(ii) External environment- Conditions which surround the individual is called external environment. C.V. Good defines - every thing outside the organism which stimulates and to which- the organism responds consciously or unconsciously. Earth, sun, moon, climate and nature influence the individual. Life style, rites and rituals, traditions, mores etc influence the social life.
