Deck 15: Ethics and Globalization

Question 1

By discussing topics like skills, attitudes, knowledge, and understanding,
helps people cope in an increasingly complex marketplace.

Answer 1

Consumer education

Question 2

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is an example of the leading philanthropic group developing a global perspective, a world attitude. Describe the foundationʹs principles and the United Nationsʹ list of universally felt human needs.

Answer 2

Variety of answers acceptable, lessening starvation worldwide, providing immunizations to take care of the most fundamental infectious diseases such as malaria.

Question 3

If a consumerʹs long distance phone company switches to another company without his or her permission, it is called

A)pounding.
B)sneak and switch.
C)cramming.
D)slamming.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

is a symbolic act of voluntarily bestowing and occurs in nearly every culture in the form of celebration.

A)Checking
B)Gifting
C)Parker theory and practice
D)Acknowledging

Question 5

The entire endowment of land and resources available to us that makes economic activity possible is called

A)commonwealth.
B)ecological promise.
C)natural capital.
D)globalization.

Question 6

Globalization refers to the distribution of goods and services locally.

Question 7

The desire to use something weʹve paid for is known as the .

Question 8

A conscious effort to live more modestly with fewer possessions and at lower consumption levels is called

A)Greenpeace.
B)voluntary simplicity.
C)Feng Shui
D)green simplicity.

Question 9

Having unexplained charges on phone bills for services never ordered, authorized, received or used is called .

Question 10

Consumer terrorismʹs purpose is to disrupt the marketplace.)

Question 11

Material that will decompose naturally through biological processes is considered
.

Question 12

Environmental concerns and crises such as are spurring ʺgreenʺ consumerism.

A)xeroscapes
B)global warming
C)Energy Star
D)floods

Question 13

of Americans report always feeling rushed according to the textbook.

A)One-third
B)Three-quarters
C)One-tenth
D)Nearly all

Question 14

Rent-to-own (RTO)is an industry of dealers who rent a variety of goods from furniture to electronics with an option to buy.

Question 15

Connected with the desire to acquire is the desire to use something we have paid for. This reluctance to waste a purchase is called

A)sunk-cost fallacy.
B)the accumulation principle.
C)conquering consumer waste.
D)risk management.

Question 16

In , the approach is to provide a unique service or product that is not too public.

Question 17

What are the four drives impacting consumer behavior the book names?

Question 18

Economic development that provides for human needs without undermining global ecosystems and depleting essential resources is

A)sustainable development.
B)industrialization.
C)materialism.
D)maximum utility.

Question 19

Nine hundred (900)phone numbers cost money.

Question 20

Consumer education curricula includes all of the following major concepts EXCEPT

A)E-commerce.
B)citizen/government participation.
C)resource management.
D)consumer decision making.

Question 21

What steps can you follow if youʹve been a victim of identity theft?)