Which of the Following Comes Closest in Characterizing the Concept

question 29

Multiple Choice

Which of the following comes closest in characterizing the concept of hedonic consumption?

• A) Bill can't get an advertising jingle out of his mind when he enters a store and sees the product the jingle advertises.
• B) Kim can never buy fashionable clothes without looking carefully at their construction and then feeling the quality of the cloth with her fingers.
• C) Marcus often buys products just to make his wife angry. He thinks that since she is such a penny-pincher she ought to be punished. Buying unneeded items is how Marcus punishes her frugality.
• D) A new computer game rapidly replaced an older one because it had much faster action.

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