Unit 4 Consumer Decision-Making Process Questions

Unit 4 Consumer Decision-Making Process Questions

Learning Unit 4 Intro: Choose 3 of these questions to address and please include the question as a header before your answer.

  1. To what extent should manufacturers be held liable for harms caused by their products?
  2. Describe several ways in which consumers are less than free in making choices about which products to purchase?
  3. Explain a way in which the lowest price might not be the ethically best price.
  4. Distinguish between manipulation, deception, and a lie. Does the ethical wrong with these practices depend most directly on the consequences or on the action?
  5. Explain a way in which a consumer could be described as vulnerable. What factors might make a person vulnerable in each sense? What are the ethics of marketing to the vulnerable?