Vocabulary
Consumer Protection
Consumer Rights
Choice Influences
Vocab 2
100
Includes magazines, news media, billboards, points-of-sale
What is Advertising?
100
Makes sure appliances, toys and other products are safe
What is CPSC?
100
Ensures purchases will not harm us
What is safety?
100
The usual pattern or thought about decisions
What is tradition?
100
To convince
What is Persuade?
200
Someone who uses or buys products or services
What is consumer?
200
Ensures safety of cosmetics, medicines, and all foods except for meat and poultry
What is the FDA?
200
Selection of goods and services at competitive prices
What is the right to choose?
200
People giving us advice and /or pressure
What are salespeople?
200
To make fun of in a clever way
What is satirize?
300
The commercial production of a product or service
What is Industry?
300
Regulates advertising
What is FTC?
300
The right to join in the making of laws about consumers
What is the right to be heard?
300
A format for sending out messages
What is advertising?
300
Something that conceals or misleads
What is a smokescreen?
400
A person who pleads another's cause
What is an advocate?
400
Safety of meat and poultry
What is FSIS?
400
The right to learn skills necessary to become wise consumers
What is the right to education?
400
Images from friends or media to influence our choices
What are peers?
400
An official order usually by a city or town
What is an Ordinance?
500
An official order forbidding something
What is Ban?
500
Provides information to consumers
What is CIC?
500
The right to have problems corrected
What is the right to redress?
500
The best deal
What is the price/cost?
500
Items located on or near cash registers in a store
What are Point of sale promotions?