Social Studies - Novelty Seeking Review

What name is given to the lightbulb that has been on for >100 years?

• longest-lasting-lightbulb

• Bulby Baggins

• centennial bulb

• 100-year bulb

• century bulb

How many words is Shakespeare credited with inventing?

• 2,000

• 1,700

• 1,000

• 400

According to an informal study from Spotify, at what age do people stop listening to new music?

• 50

• 27

• 22

• 33

Which product first introduced annual product updates?

• computers

• smartphones

• lightbulbs

• cars

When a person buys and starts to wear a new shirt, she might then start shopping for a matching scarf and a nice motorcycle to go with it. This is an example of ...

• The Bandwagon Effect

• The Diderot Effect

• The Goren Hypothesis

• The Compulsive Shopper Effect

The policy of planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life or a purposely frail design, so that it becomes obsolete after a certain pre-determined period of time is called:

(a)  

Which is true?

• Consumers are to blame for Planned Obsolescence

• Manufacturers are to blame for Planned Obsolescence

• Both consumers and manufacturers are to blame for Planned Obsolescence

You see everyone drinking Boba tea, so you decide to buy some too. This could be described as ...

• The Diderot Effect

• Novelty-Seeking

• The Bandwagon Effect

• Semantic Drift

Which politician told young voters to “Pokémon Go to the polls”?

• Donald Trump

• Boris Johnson

• Hilary Clinton

• Barack Obama

What is a 'fad'?

• a style, activity, or interest that is very popular for a short period of time

• general development or change in a situation or in the way that people are behaving

• a long-term shift in semantics

• an impulse decision