Alpha-techtronics, Inc.buys gifts for Christmas from a particular toy manufacturing company.Alpha then distributes these gifts to several juvenile detention centres every year as part of its social responsibility program.The company delivers beautifully wrapped gifts and stockings filled with other goodies on Christmas Eve.This is an example of:
A)an external locus of control.
B)limited problem solving.
C)an internal locus of control.
D)ritual consumption.
E)extended problem solving.

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This scenario describes ritual consumption, as it involves an annual tradition of giving gifts and treats to those in need as part of a social responsibility program. This is not an example of problem solving or locus of control.

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