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Psychological attributes are involved in very simple phenomena like in time
taken to react to a stimulus, i.e. reaction time, and also in highly global
concepts like happiness. It is difficult to count and specify the number of
psychological attributes that can be assessed. Assessment is the first step in
understanding a psychological attribute. Assessment refers to the
measurement of psychological attributes of individuals and their evaluation,
often using multiple methods in terms of certain standards of comparison.
Any attribute will be said to exist in a person only if it can be measured by
using scientific procedures. For example, when we say, Harish is dominant,
we are referring to the degree of dominance in Harish. This statement is
based on our own assessment of dominance in him. Our assessment may
be informal or formal. Formal assessment is objective, and organised. On the
other hand, informal assessment varies from case to case and from one
assessor to another and, therefore, is open to interpretations. Psychologists
are trained in making formal assessment of psychological attributes. Once
assessment is done, we can use this information to predict how Harish will
probably behave in future. We may predict that Harish, if given a chance to
lead a team, will most likely be an authoritarian leader. If the predicted
consequence is not what we want, we may want to intervene to effect a
change in Harish's behaviour. The attribute chosen for assessment depends
upon our purpose. In order to help a weak student perform well in
examinations, we may assess his intellectual strengths and weaknesses. If a
person fails to adjust with members of proper environment and training. They
are complex and expressed in terms of dimensions. In the four decades
since its founding, environmental sociology has produced a substantive body
of scholarship that highlights the motivations, and organizing mechanisms
underlying society's relationship with nature and the physical world. The field
has provided important insights into comparative public opinion about the
environment, diffusion of environmental institutions around the world, effect
of values on individual environmental behavior, role of culture in shaping
environmental exploitation and regulation, social interests driving
consumerism and high resource usage production systems, capacity of
societies to learn and practice sustainability, environmental effects of local
and global systems of resource extraction