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Consumer buying beha
consumer buying behavior
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Interpersonal determinants of consumer buying behvaior | Cultural influences, Social influences, Family influences |
| Personal determinants of consumer buying behavior | Needs, Motives, perceptions, Attitudes, Learning, Self-concept theory |
| Culture | Values, beliefs, preferences, and tastes handed down from one generation to the next |
| Subculture | Small homogeneous groups with their own distinct modes of behavior e.g. Hispanic American, African American are sub-cultures |
| Norms | Values, attitudes, and behaviors a group deems appropriate for its members. |
| Status | Relative position of any individual member in a group. |
| Roles | Behavior that members of a group expect of individuals who hold specific positions within a group. |
| Asch Phenomenon | Impact of groups and group norms on individual behavior. Something similar to majority rules. |
| Reference groups | people whose opinions are valued and to whom a person looks for guidance in his or her own behavior, values, and conduct, such as spouse, family, friends, or celebrities. |
| Opinion leaders | Trendsetters who purchase new products before others in a group and then influence others in their purchase. |
| Needs | Imbalance between the consumers actual and desired states. |
| Motives | inner states that direct a person towrad the goal of satusfying a need |
| Maslow's hierarchy of needs | Maslow developed a theory that characterized needs and arranged them into a hierarchy. The five levels from basic to higher needs are: physiological need, safety, social, esteem, self-actualization |
| Perceptions | Meaning that a person attributes to incoming stimuli gathered through the five senses- sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell. |
| Perceptual screens | Mental filtering processes through which all inputs must pass. |
| Learning | In a marketing context, this refers to as immediate or expected changes in consumer behavior as a result of experience |
| Componenents of Learning theory | Drive, Cues, Responses, Reinforcement |
| Drive | Any strong stimulus that impels action |
| Cue | Any object in the environment that determines the nature of the consumer's response to a drive |
| Response | Individuals reaction to a set of cues and drives |
| Reinforcement | Reduction in drive that results from a proper response. |
| Six steps in consumer buying behavior | Problem solving, Information search, evaluation of alternatives, purchase decision, post purchase evaluation, Disposal of product |
| Evoked set | Number of alternatives a consumer actually considers in making a purchase decision |
| Evaluative criteria | Features a consumer considers in choosing among alternatives |
| Cognitive dissonance | Imbalance among knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes that occurs after an action or decision, such as a purchase. |
| Routinized response behavior | Consumers make many purchases routinely by choosing a preferred band or one of a limited group of acceptable brands. This is a rapid consumer problem solving process. |
| Limited problem solving | When consumers apply a set of evaluative criteria when they encounter an unknown brand. This problem solving process takes a little longer than routinized response behavior. |
| Extended problem solving | This results when brands are difficult to categorize or evaluate. This problem solving process involves lengthy external searches. |
| Kurt Lewin's proposition | Kurt lewin proposed that behavior ( B) is a function (f) of the interactions of personal influences (P) and pressures exerted by outside environmental force (E). |
| High involvement decisions | These have high levels of potential social or economic consequences, such as selecting a college for a degree. |
| Low involvement decisions | These decisions pose little financial, social, or emotional risk to the buyer, such as buying a gallon of milk. |