UW DS 221- First Exam Questions And Answers.

HER Process (Human Environment Reaction) - Answer-connection between human behavior and physical design 8 HER Processes (Every Hot Person Takes Prescription Pills During Homeroom) - Answer--Environmental Stimulation -Homeyness -Personal Space -Territoriality -Privacy -Place Identity and Place Attachment -Defensible Space -Housing Quality 4 HER Principles (Mary Eats Dirty Clean Polly Pockets) - Answer--Manifest & Latent Function -Environmental determinism and cognitive appraisal -Person-environment fit -Person-environment interaction Environmental Stimulation (HER Process) - Answer-how the physical environment effect us studies: cat experiment (could only understand vertical lines), babies enriched cribs, mice doing tasks to get food Critical Period - Answer-Window in time when humans animals are malleable to a particular stimulation -Degree of plasticity varies during particular time periods of development -Some stimulations have no critical period, such as noiseEnvironmental Determinism - Answer-Physical environment has direct effect on human health and behavior Individuals are not influenced by what people think about the environment Cognitive Appraisial - Answer-Human reactions to the environment are influenced by the meaning and symbolism of the object or setting Effects human beings more commonly than determinism Individual difference in culture, gender, ethnicity, personality or experience, history can profoundly alter human responses to a particular environment because they alter cognitive appraisal (ex: Based on history, training, and experience of architects, aesthetics preferences changed in comparison to those not trained) Manifest Functions (Principle) - Answer-the recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern (identified properties, purpose, objective meaning, explicit meaning) (ex: newspaper to spread news, stairs to get to door) *best kind of designs allow for both manifest and latent Latent Functions (Principle) - Answer-the unrecognized and unintended consequences of any social pattern (symbolic, sociocultural meaning, values, implicit meaning) (ex: newspaper to swat flies, stairs to rest on) *best kind of designs allow for both manifest and latentHome: Manifest Functions - Answer--Defense & Security -Weather protection -Place to eat, sleep, cook, rest, intimacy -Place for raising a family -Place to socialize Home: Latent Functions - Answer--Homeyness (HER Process) -"resembling or suggestive of home; home-like; having the feeling of home, homish Homeyness (HER Process) - Answer-Various physical forms that are symbolic and trigger feelings of familiarity, identity, or place attachment -Manifest functions make it a house, a shelter -Latent functions render a home -A house become a home because of cognitive appraisal Physical Properties of Homeyness - Answer-- color -materials -furnishings -decorative objects -arrangement -exterior