Social ecology studies how the human social and natural systems interact, how they deal with each other and how they can get well, in order to understand the relationship between culture and nature. It can treat topics like land use and food production, how societies grow, environmental impacts of human activities needed for the society to keep on existing, etc. It has a different view of the human way of living and it tries to mix it with the sustainability process needed to stop destroying our world and find ways to help nature without ending our society
Based on the information provided it can be said that in this scenario the researcher is using the chain procedure known as total task presentation. This is a procedure that requires that the student perform the complete task every iteration until the entire chain is learned. Which is exactly what the researcher is making the adult student do in this scenario.
