4．The passage tells
us
.
A．the relationship
between supply and demand
B．the possible
results of government controls
C．the necessity of
government control
D．the urgency of
getting rid of government controls
1-4 ACAB
No. 10
People can be addicted to different things, e. g. alcohol, drugs,
certain foods, or even television. People who have such an addiction are
compulsive (难以抑制的); i. e.
, they have a very powerful psychological need that they feel they must
satisfy. According to psychologists, many people are compulsive spenders; they
feel that they must spend money. This compulsion, like most others, is
irrational – impossible to explain reasonably. For compulsive spenders who buy
on credit, charge accounts are even more exciting than money. In other words,
compulsive spenders feel that with credit, they can do anything. Their pleasure
in spending enormous amounts is actually greater than the pleasures that they
get from the things they buy.
There is
even a special psychology of bargain hunting. To save money, of course, most
people look for sales, low prices, and discounts. Compulsive bargain hunters,
however, often buy things that they don’t need just because they are cheap.
They want to believe that they are helping their budgets, but they are really
playing an exciting game: when they can buy something for less than other
people, they feel that they are winning. Most people, experts claim, have two
reasons for their behavior: a good reason for the things that they do and the
real reason.
It is not
only scientists, of course, who understand the psychology of spending habits,
but also business people. Stores, companies and advertisers use psychology to
increase business: they consider people’s need for love, power, or influence,
their basic values, their beliefs and opinions, and so on in their advertising
and sales methods.
Psychologists
often use a method called “behavior therapy” to help individuals solve their
personal problems. In the same was, they can help people who feel that they
have problems with money.
