Surface appearance effects often make material objects pretty. The definition of function often places a higher priority on protecting the person's safety than keeping them happy and occupied. The people who pay for our services have an impact of the definition of function that needs careful, ongoing scrutiny. Their rights to be happy and occupied are functional too. The justifications for the arts and humanities apply to them too.
Primary Effects
To know what a secondary effect is, you have to know what the primary effect is.
Attention to graded differences is used to form a series of mental images that are retained in working memory. The images are compared to form cause and effect connections. The materials must display perceivable changes that can be detected when comparing images. Slight, subtle changes noticed by a pre-teen are included, but the sophisticated differences noticed by teens and fine arts majors are excluded.
Secondary Effects
Changes in surface appearances can have secondary effects that societies have laws, regulations and policies about.
- When surface appearances might affect the health and safety of all people, regulations and laws are usually in place to protect the public.
- When surface appearances are changed on an object belonging to someone else, legal actions may be taken when the change affects the monetary or emotional value of the object.
- When surface appearances are changed on a personal possession, the individual can set the standard for improvement.
Anticipation of Change
- The ability to anticipate changes generalizes and can be observed in the following behaviors:
- The supplies they will need are gathered up and placed in their work area before starting a task.
- They are able to consistently vary their pace according to external constraints.
- Accurate estimates of seconds are now possible; counting the seconds is a common strategy that makes sense to them.
- They can generate new ideas from pictures or illustrations to imagine a change in present material objects.
- They can imagine the impact that their words and actions will have on other people and the resulting behaviors are associated with kinship, courtesy, good manners, altruistic gestures, and love.
Measurements
Their use of rulers and other measures of surfaces tends to become dependable and exact within ACL 5.6 for width and length but not depth.
They evaluate their own actions and compare results with prior experiences and social standards known to them. When a different opinion about a change in a material object is demonstrated, they will evaluate it and make an independent choice.