研究生態(tài)心理學(xué)就是研究知者與被知者之間的關(guān)系。因?yàn)槠渌麑W(xué)科,根據(jù)定義,始于一個認(rèn)知代理(認(rèn)識者),和一個故意的對象知識(已知)以及顯式或隱式地同他們進(jìn)行了認(rèn)識論或本體論假設(shè),然而他們解釋,生態(tài)心理學(xué)就是研究這些東西,可以適當(dāng)被認(rèn)為是最基本的學(xué)科。在這一角色中，它形成了一個基本的橋梁，從其他學(xué)科(如物理學(xué)、生物學(xué)、進(jìn)化理論和認(rèn)知理論)獲取信息和信息，而這些學(xué)科通常被視為獨(dú)立的、通常不相稱的學(xué)科。

To study Ecological Psychology is to study the relation between knower and known. Because every other discipline, by definition, begins with an epistemic agent (the knower), and an intentional object of knowledge (the known) as well as the explicitly or implicitly held epistemological or ontological assumptions that go with them, however they are construed, ecological psychology, which is just the study of these things, can appropriately be thought of as the most fundamental of all disciplines. In this role it forms a fundamental bridge between, both drawing from and informing, what are otherewise usually taken as separate and usually incommensurate disciplines such as physics, biology, evolutionary theory, and cognitive theory.