Cookies Refer to

question 57

Multiple Choice

Cookies refer to

• A) computer files that a marketer can download onto the computer of an online shopper who visits the marketer's website.
• B) embedded programs that flash split-second subliminal messages at regular intervals.
• C) benign threads that direct a customer to alternate websites that might be of interest to them.
• D) embedded programs that follow a user's path from one site to another in order to determine where else a customer shops.
• E) spyware used to retrieve personal information from a person's computer.

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Definitions:

Cohort Effect

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Educational Software

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Erikson's Psychosocial Theory

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