DCOM 130 Midterm fully solved graded A+ 2023/2024

DCOM 130 Midterm80/20 rule - correct answer 80 percent of a product's usage involves 20 percent of its features Advance organizer - correct answer Brief chunk of information that helps facilitate learning and understanding - prepare to be given information Expository advance organizer - correct answer Explains something people don't already know Comparative advance organizer - correct answer Builds on prior knowledge / mental models AEIOU - correct answer Activities - goal directed sets of actions or behaviors that people do in order to accomplish their objectives or satisfy their needs Environment (or context) - the different areas where activities take place; focusing on those details that affect the object of our study Interactions - are between a person and someone or something else, and are the building blocks of activities Objects - are building blocks of the environment, key elements sometimes put to complex or unintended uses, changing their function, meaning and context User(s) - the people providing the behaviors, preferences, and goals that we observe Anchoring and adjustment - correct answer A heuristic related to the priming effect- effective means of influence when stimulus introduced activates concepts that are consistent with a preexisting need or goal start with the number that you know—the anchor--and then you adjust in the direction that you believe is appropriate. Start with guessing 5million population, others will guess in the millions Affordance - correct answer Physical and perceived characteristic that allows/influences behavior (ex. round wheels allow better rolling than square ones) Availability - correct answer The design process of a system that guarantees readiness as the major part of goal specification Bit - correct answer One binary digit, 0 or 1 Bossy 2.0 and n+1 - correct answer Bossy the cow stops producing milk, so get Bossy 2.0 for more milk N+1 - each new release has to improve perceived value People like number upgrades even when not necessary Classical conditioning - correct answer Associate a neutral stimulus (bank sign) with a trigger stimuli (there are lollipops in there) to cause a physical or emotional response (let's go to the bank) Closure - correct answer The tendency to perceive a set of individual elements as one, close gaps and missing information Cognitive dissonance - correct answer Tendency to seek consistency among attitudes, thoughts, and beliefs - Discomfort when one of these things conflict (dissonance) - Comfort when they agree (consonance) "The house devalued, but not THAT much / I love living here!" Alleviate dissonance by downplaying the problem, adding consonant cognitions, or removing or changing the dissonant thinking