Give a definition of extreme environments (EEs) and the factors that humans must contend with in EEs and that EE psychologists study
What will be an ideal response?
* Extreme environments are settings that require significant human adaptation for performance, physical and psychological health, and survival.
* Physical factors include lighting (too much or not enough), wide fluctuations in temperature, disruptions of daily biological cycles, and large changes in atmospheric pressure (e.g., weightlessness).
* Interpersonal factors include cultural differences, leadership, privacy, personal space, communication, crowding, and conflict.
* Psychological factors include coping skills, emotional stability, fatigue, fear, isolation, and confinement, and the high cost of failure.
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