Vocabulary
100: What term describes a statement that seems contradictory but may actually be true?
Answer: What is a paradox?
100: What is the average time Americans keep their mobile phones before upgrading?
Answer: What is 21.7 months?
100: What is one reason people desire the latest products?
Answer: What is the influence of others' possessions?
100: What type of spending is driven largely by feelings rather than necessity?
Answer: What is emotional spending?
200: What is the term for a detailed account of events in the order they occurred?
Answer: What is a chronicle?
200: According to the text, what percentage of Americans save more than 10 percent of their income?
Answer: What is one in four Americans?
200: Who are the individuals born between the early 1980s and early 2000s referred to in the study?
Answer: What are millennials?
200: What market is mentioned as an example of emotional purchasing?
Answer: What is the market for collectibles?
300: What does it mean to distribute resources or duties for a specific purpose?
Answer: What is to allocate?
300: What aspect of shopping do mirror neurons influence?
Answer: What is reflecting the feelings and behavior of others?
300: What do scientists believe mirror neurons may indicate about our desires?
Answer: What is that we want what others have?
300: Why do many collectors buy items from the past?
Answer: What is longing for a time past?
400: What is the process of reaching a conclusion based on reasoning?
Answer: What is to deduce?
400: How do social relationships affect buying decisions among millennials?
Answer: What is peer recommendations?
400: What is a key factor that influences millennials’ purchasing habits?
Answer: What is social causes?
400: What is one reason marketing does not drive demand for collectibles?
Answer: What is a lack of advertising for those items?
500: What is the term for the main source of information or the first in importance?
Answer: What is primary?
500: What is a common trait of brands that attract the millennial generation?
Answer: What is a connection to social causes?
500: What is one possible reason for the fast turnover rate of products in America?
Answer: What is increasing technological change?
500: What does the text suggest about the complexity of our desire for particular items?
Answer: What is that it involves our brains, social connections, and emotions?