The three major types of reference groups are
A) membership, aspirational, and advocacy.
B) advocacy, avoidance, and approach.
C) aspirational, dissociative, and membership.
D) actual, implied, and desired.
E) family, peer group, and media.

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The three major types of reference groups are aspirational (groups that an individual hopes to belong to or imitate), dissociative (groups that an individual does not want to belong to or be associated with), and membership (groups that an individual currently belongs to). Choice A lists two correct types (aspirational and membership) and one incorrect type (advocacy), choice B lists one correct type (advocacy) and two incorrect types (avoidance and approach), choice D lists three types of reference groups but they are not the major ones, and choice E lists three potential sources of reference groups but not the types of reference groups themselves.

The Three Major Types of Reference Groups Are