By Creating Needs Rather Than Merely Fulfilling Them, by Surrounding

question 59

Multiple Choice

By creating needs rather than merely fulfilling them, by surrounding consumers with images of the good life, and by showing products as symbols of status and success, advertising can create:

• A) consumer socialization
• B) ethnocentricity
• C) materialism
• D) informative ads

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Definitions:

Flat Tax Structure

A tax system with a constant marginal rate, usually applied to individual or corporate income.

Percentage

A ratio or fraction out of 100 that is used to express how large one quantity is relative to another quantity.

Marginal Rate

The rate of increase in a variable (e.g., tax rate, substitution, technical substitution) as another variable (e.g., income, quantity of another good) increases incrementally.

Increase

An upward movement in quantity, value, or some other measure, indicating growth or accumulation.