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Chapter 1 Assessment
Summary
• People interact with their housing. Their housing
affects them, and they affect their housing.
• Housing helps satisfy people’s physical and
psychological needs and can help them move
toward self-actualization.
• Beauty, self-expression, and creativity are other
needs people meet through housing.
• Each person’s housing refl ects the lifestyle he or
she has chosen.
• Needs and values are closely related. The needs
and values of people and living units vary,
however, as they move through the life cycles.
• Housing affects and helps improve the quality of
life for both individuals and society.
Terms in Action
1. Term fl ash cards Work in teams to locate
small images that visually represent each
of the Content Terms at the beginning of the
chapter. Print the images. To create fl ash cards,
write each term on a note card and paste the
image that describes or explains the term on
the opposite side. Use the fl ash cards to review
the terms.
Think Critically
2. Analyze impact Suppose some family members
must manage multiple roles such as parent and
worker. Analyze the changes that might need to be
made to the interior of a home to meet the needs of
a member who works from home.
3. Assess needs What needs and values are met
by housing? Make a personal assessment and
list your needs and values in order of priority. In
contrast, if you were to work with a housing or
interiors client, what questions might you ask
to help your client assess needs and values met
by housing?
4. Analyze space Analyze and describe how
the use of a spare bedroom may change
depending on whether the living unit includes
the following: small children, teens, people with
hobbies, a person working at home, or retirees.
5. Analyze behavior In teams, brainstorm
actions or behaviors that may be useful for
enhancing creativity for interior designers.
Discuss your team’s ideas with the class.
Core Skills
6. Writing Identify 10 households in your
community that you know well. (Note: Keep
family names private.) For each, identify the type
of household it is. Also, write a one-sentence
description of each member, identifying gender,
approximate age, and relationship to the family.
7. Writing Consider your household members and
examine your home’s interior space. In the last fi ve
years, has the size of your household changed? If
so, how? Did the change result in more or less space
per person? In comparison, do you have more or
less personal privacy today than fi ve years ago?
Forecast your household’s need for space fi ve years
from now. What possible changes in the household
may occur in the next fi ve years that will increase
the amount of space per person? that will decrease
the space per person? Write a brief summary of
your forecast.
8. Speaking and listening Interview an older
adult and ask him or her to describe changes
in his or her housing over the years. Ask how
the person’s lifestyle and housing impact each
other. Is ability to age-in-place important to
this older adult? Why? If possible, ask the older
adult’s permission to audio-record the interview
and share it with the class.
9. Research and writing Are there homeless
people in your community? Investigate what the
town (city) and local charitable organizations
are doing to handle this problem. What actions
do these organizations take to prevent it?
Summarize your fi ndings in a one-page report.
10. Writing In your own words, write a brief
summary of the chapter content in 15 sentences or
less. Save your summary for future reference.
11. Speaking Imagine a full day in the life of
a homeless person. Look for a website that
tries to convey that experience and examine
the information it provides. What facts about
homelessness surprise you? How many