The Material/ Economic Self

Question 1

The self in association to his/her possessions

Answer 1

MATERIAL/ ECONOMIC SELF

Question 2

Who wrote The Principles of Psychology (1890)?

Answer 2

William James

Question 3

Who said that “A man’s self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht and back-account. All these things give him the same emotions. If they wax and prosper, he feels triumphant; if they dwindle and die away, he feels cast down, – not necessarily in the same degree for each thing, but in much the same way for all.”

Answer 3

William James

Question 4

Refers to tangible objects, people, or places that carry the designation on my or mine.

Answer 4

MATERIAL/ ECONOMIC SELF

Question 5

Refers to any part of our body. These entities are clearly an intimate part of who we are.

Answer 5

BODILY SELF

Question 6

Refers to anything that is beyond our body (Psychological ownership)

Answer 6

EXTENDED SELF

Question 7

The importance a consumer attaches to worldly possessions.

Answer 7

Materialism

Question 8

The extent to which consumption becomes the primary source of satisfaction, as well as the dominant mode of motivation.

Answer 8

Materialism

Question 9

This model states that one’s possessions are considered a part of oneself. They are symbols and extensions of the personal and social aspects of her identity/ personhood.

Answer 9

Symbolic Communication Model

Question 10

This model states that possession helps people define themselves.

Answer 10

Symbolic Communication Model

Question 11

This model states that possessions can enhance one’s image and develop a positive sense of self.

Answer 11

Symbolic Communication Model

Question 12

This model states that it can be a reassurance that one is the person’s wishes to be.

Answer 12

Symbolic Communication Model

Question 13

This model states that goods and possessions are used to fill in or to compensate for the person’s lack.

Answer 13

Symbolic Communication Model

Question 14

consumers own high-priced, status-oriented goods to impress others and to convince them of their high social status.

Answer 14

Conspicuous Consumption

Question 15

What is the step-by-step of the loss of Possessions

Answer 15

1. Acquisition of material possessions
2. Possessions become symbolic expression of self-identity
3. Loss of possessions
4. Loss of important aspect of self
5. Negative reactions

Question 16

TRUE OR FALSE

Meaning is in a constant state of flux.

Answer 16

TRUE

Question 17

TRUE OR FALSE

Meanings of objects that are used to make visible and stabilize the categories of culture are also stagnant in their appropriation in advertising, in television programming, and among social subgroups.

Answer 17

FALSE because–

are also subject to frequent change through their appropriation in advertising, in television programming, and among social subgroups.

Question 18

TRUE OR FALSE

Cultural categories of person that help shape identity are subject to constant manipulation by individuals, social groups, and marketing agents.

Answer 18

TRUE

Question 19

Extensions of the Self and have become parts of the extended self. It belongs to the top 5 possessions.

Answer 19

Pets

Question 20

TRUE OR FALSE

There is a negative relationship between self-esteem and owning pets (Covert et al, 1985)

Answer 20

FALSE

Question 21

The _____ as “co-therapist” (Levinson, 1962)

Answer 21

dog

Question 22

Who said?

“It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”

Answer 22

Bertrand Russell