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Fundamentals of Mark
Term | Definition |
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Consumer Behavior | Study of when, where, and how people buy things and then dispose of them |
search advertising | ads that appear on the Web pages you pull up after doing an online search |
postpurchase dissonance | aka buyer's remorse |
planned obsolescence | a deliberate effort by companies to make their products obsolete, or unusable, after a period of time |
impulse buying | Purchasing a product with no planning or forethought |
Low-involvement products | inexpensive and pose a low risk to the buyer if she makes a mistake by purchasing them |
routine response behavior | consumers make automatic purchase decisions based on limited information or information they have gathered in the past |
high-involvement products | carry a high risk to buyers if they fail, are complex, or have high price tags (cars, homes) |
extended problem solving | purchasing decisions in which consumers gather a significant amount of information before making a decision |
limited problem solving | purchasing decisions made based on consideration of some outside information |
atmospherics | the physical aspects of the selling environment retailers try to control |
Psychographics | measuring the values, attitudes, lifestyles, and opinions of consumers using demographics |
operant conditioning | behavior that's repeated when rewarded |