The article deals with a controversial issue, namely the effect of architecture and the built environment on human behaviour. Two debatable approaches dominated the architectural field in the past decades: determinism and possibilism. Both have proved inadequate in explaining human-environment relationships. Probabilism emerged as a tradeoff, providing an interface that accentuated the role of architecture in influencing human behaviour. The article presents a theoretical framework to explore the concept of probabilism, and the extent to which architectural intervention can affect the perceptual and cognitive behaviour of individuals. A psychophysical study is conducted on a selected environment (University of Baghdad campus) based on two approaches: the cognitive representation and mental mapping of individuals (the graphic recall), and the perceptual selectivity of environmental elements (the verbal recall). The findings assert the significant impact of the physical aspects (semblance and positioning attributes) of environmental stimuli, thereby accentuating the probabilistic approach to human behaviour.

这篇文章涉及一个有争议的问题，即建筑和建筑环境对人类行为的影响。在过去的几十年里，两种有争议的方法主导了建筑领域：决定论和可能性论。两者都被证明不足以解释人类与环境的关系。概率作为一种权衡出现，它提供了一个界面，强调了建筑在影响人类行为方面的作用。本文提出了一个理论框架来探索概率的概念，以及建筑干预在多大程度上影响个人的感知和认知行为。基于两种方法在选定的环境（巴格达大学校园）上进行心理物理学研究：个体的认知表征和心理映射（图形回忆），以及环境元素的感知选择性（言语回忆）。研究结果断言了环境刺激的物理方面（外观和定位属性）的重大影响，从而强调了人类行为的概率方法。