| 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.
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| Consumer skills | Those capabilities necessary for purchases to occur such as understanding money, budgeting, product evaluation, and so forth.
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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.
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| Consumption-related attitudes | Cognitive and affective orientations toward marketplace stimuli such as advertisements, salespeople, warranties, and so forth.
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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.
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| Family decision making | The process by which decisions that directly or indirectly involve two or more family members are made.
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| Family household | A household consisting of a family and any unrelated people residing in the same housing unit.
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| HLC/occupational category matrix | Determines the problems the household will likely encounter and provides a range of acceptable solutions.
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| Household | All the people who occupy a housing unit.
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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.
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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.
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| Meditation | Occurs when a parent alters a child's initial interpretation of, our response to, a marketing or other stimulus.
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| Modeling | Occurs when a child learns appropriate, or inappropriate, consumption behaviors by observing others.
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| Nonfamily household | A householder living alone or exclusively with others to whom he or she is not related.
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| Piaget's stages of cognitive development | A widely accepted set of stages of cognitive development.
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| Traditional family | A married couple and their own or adopted children living at home.
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