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NCIDQ IDFX TOPIC 1 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions And CORRECT Answers Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - A mental construct of how and why things happen, which is often used to predict future events or actions. The most fundamental beginning of design. Design Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - A way to direct de...

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NCIDQ IDFX TOPIC 1 UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions And CORRECT
Answers
Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - A mental construct of how and why things happen,
which is often used to predict future events or actions. The most fundamental beginning of
design.


Design Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - A way to direct design based on a system of
beliefs or philosophy.


Historic Precedent Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Bases current design on ideas and
styles of the past. In some cases the adoption is literal. Other cases the new design approach was
based on a reaction against ideals of previous movements.


Environmental Design Research - CORRECT ANSWER - Focuses on theories of
interaction between humans and their environment . Attempts to develop an approach to
RATIONAL design based on SCIENTIFIC research ..rather.. than just anecdotal evidence or
personal philosophies


--problem?: the complexity of interaction between humans and buildings
----to be "scientifically" valid, most research only studies one variable at a time, so the effect of
changing that variable can be measured without the influence from other variables


Evidence Based Design EBD - CORRECT ANSWER - A design theory that bases design
decisions on credible research that links one or more environmental elements with a desired
outcome. Literature searches, observations of existing facilities, interviews and questionnaires
with users and facility managers, and post-occupancy evaluations.


Functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER - Places emphasis on providing simple, rational
solutions to design problems without extraneous decoration.
Ex: English arts & crafts movement form the early 20th century

,Modernism - CORRECT ANSWER - Developed in Bauhaus School of Design. It used
newly emerging technology to create functional, machine-like objects & architecture. In interior
design, spaces were reduced to what was required to meet strict functional needs without
unnecessary decorations.


Gestalt Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Founded in the early part of the 20th century in
Germany by Max Wertheimer. Holds that humans innately perceive things as a whole so that
what is perceived is complete & comprehensible.


Simulatenous Contrast - CORRECT ANSWER - When the same color appears to change
depending on the background it is seen against.


Grouping - CORRECT ANSWER - Humans perceive separate units in the visual field as a
group.


Proximity - CORRECT ANSWER - A principal of Gestalt psychology, in which objects
close together are seen as belonging


Similarity - CORRECT ANSWER - A principal of Gestalt psychology, in which the brain
groups objects of similar shape, size and color.


Direction - CORRECT ANSWER - A principal of Gestalt psychology, in which objects
are perceived to be moving simultaneously in the same direction they're seen as a group.


Closure (Form Constancy) - CORRECT ANSWER - A principal of Gestalt psychology,
which holds that humans will perceive incomplete forms as complete because humans tend to
want to add information to what is being seen so that it makes sense.


Continuity - CORRECT ANSWER - The tendency to perceive things as simply as possible
with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern

, Simplicity - CORRECT ANSWER - A principal of Gestalt psychology, that states that
people prefer the simplest, most stable organization of forms or the overall structure of elements
in the visual field rather than complex individual parts.


Figure-Ground - CORRECT ANSWER - Refer to the way people distinguish a form
(figure) from its surroundings (the ground)


Perceptual Constancy - CORRECT ANSWER - Perceiving objects as unchanging (having
consistent lightness, color, shape, and size) even as illumination and retinal images change.


Shape Constancy - CORRECT ANSWER - The tendency to interpret the shape of an
object as being constant, even when its shape changes on the retina


Size Constancy - CORRECT ANSWER - The tendency to interpret an object as always
being the same actual size, regardless of its distance


Lightness Constancy - CORRECT ANSWER - We perceive an object as having a constant
lightness even while its illumination varies


Color Constancy - CORRECT ANSWER - Perceiving familiar objects as having
consistent color, even if changing illumination alters the wavelengths reflected by the object


Binocular Disparity - CORRECT ANSWER - The difference in the retinal images of the
two eyes that provides information about depth


Trompe L'oeil - CORRECT ANSWER - Visual illusion in art, especially as used to trick
the eye into perceiving a painted detail as a three-dimensional object.


Interposition - CORRECT ANSWER - A distant object may appear to be overlapped and
partly hidden by a closer object.

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