Joss Wants to Buy a T-Shirt

question 86

Multiple Choice

Joss wants to buy a T-shirt.He prefers branded T-shirts to nonbranded ones.Though the Calvin Klein T-shirt is very expensive, Joss decides to purchase it as he believes he is buying a higher quality item.This is an example of:

• A)a compensatory decision rule.
• B)postpurchase dissonance.
• C)a determinant attribute.
• D)decision heuristics.
• E)a noncompensatory decision rule.

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