Consumer Xhoice Flashcards

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How we decide on what products we are going to choose and what we consider every time we shop.

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Consumption Choices

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consumers make the most of their money, and it describes all the products and services that the customer can provide

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Budget Constraints

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To explain consumer behavior, we use utility to measure consumer behavior.

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Utility and Budget Constraints

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an economic term that refers to the complete satisfaction from a good or service consumption.

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Utility

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This measuring utility is the idea that individuals could order or rank the usefulness of various discrete units of economic goods. 1st 2nd 3rd

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Ordinal Utility

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This measuring utility is the quantitative measurement of satisfaction. 1/10

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Cardinal Utility

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A measurement used to assume unit and represent the amount of psychological satisfaction a specific good or service generates for a subset of people in various situations.

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Util

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One of the things that we must compute is the sum of the satisfaction that a person can receive from the consumption.

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Total Utility (TU)

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One of the things that we must compute is the additional utility gained from the consumption of one additional unit of a good or service.

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Marginal Utility (MU)

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How do yo compute the Marginal Utility?

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MU= change in Total Utility /divided by/ change in Quantity

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This law states that as the consumption increases, the marginal utility derived from each additional unit declines, ceteris paribus.

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Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility

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What is the formula in maximizing the utility between two goods?

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MUa divided by Pa = MUb divided by Pb

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This type of Change in Income is when the income or budget constraint increases, the consumption for the goodwill also increases, and vice versa.

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Normal good

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This type of Change in Income is when the income or budget constraint increases, the consumption of the goodwill decreases, and vice versa.

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Inferior good

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This type of Change in Price occurs when price changes and consumers are incentivized to consume less of the good with a relatively higher price and more with a relatively lower price.

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Substitution effect

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This type of Change in Price occurs when the buying power of the income is reduced due to the price increase, thus leading to just buying less of the goods.

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Income effect