Using Which Decision Rule Does a Consumer Begin Evaluating Options

question 30

Multiple Choice

Using which decision rule does a consumer begin evaluating options by first looking at the most important attribute and eliminating any option that does not meet a minimum cutoff point for that attribute and where subsequent evaluations proceed in order of importance until only one option remains?

• A) compensatory
• B) lexicographic
• C) elimination-by-aspects (EBA)
• D) disjunctive
• E) hierarchical

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