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| Blended family | a family consisting of a couple, one or both of whom were previously married, their children, and the children from the previous marriage of one or both parents. (See page(s) 191) |
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| Consumer skills | those capabilities necessary for purchases to occur such as understanding money, budgeting, product evaluation, and so forth. (See page(s) 210) |
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| Consumer socialization | the process by which young people acquire skills, knowledge, and attitudes relevant to their functioning as consumers in the marketplace. (See page(s) 210) |
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| Consumption-related attitudes | cognitive and affective orientations toward marketplace stimuli such as advertisements, salespeople, warranties, and so forth. (See page(s) 211) |
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| Consumption-related preferences | the knowledge, attitudes, and values that cause people to attach differential evaluations to products, brands, and retail outlets. (See page(s) 211) |
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| Family | a group of two people or more (one of whom is the householder) related by birth, marriage, or adoption and residing together. (See page(s) 191) |
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| Family decision making | the process by which decisions that directly or indirectly involve two or more family members are made. (See page(s) 204) |
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| Family household | a household consisting of a family and any unrelated people residing in the same housing unit. (See page(s) 191) |
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| HLC/occupational category matrix | determines the problems the household will likely encounter and provides a range of acceptable solutions. (See page(s) 203) |
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| Household | all the people who occupy a housing unit. (See page(s) 191) |
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| Household life cycle (HLC) | based on the age and marital status of the adult member of the household and the presence and age of children. (See page(s) 194) |
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| Instrumental training | occurs when a parent or sibling specifically and directly attempts to bring about certain responses through reasoning or reinforcement. (See page(s) 211) |
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| Meditation | occurs when a parent alters a child’s initial interpretation of, our response to, a marketing or other stimulus. (See page(s) 213) |
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| Modeling | occurs when a child learns appropriate, or inappropriate, consumption behaviors by observing others. (See page(s) 212) |
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| Nonfamily household | a householder living alone or exclusively with others to whom he or she is not related. (See page(s) 191) |
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| Piaget’s stages of cognitive development | a widely accepted set of stages of cognitive development. (See page(s) 210) |
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| Traditional family | a married couple and their own or adopted children living at home. (See page(s) 192) |