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Marketing Ch_5
Consumer Behavior
Question | Answer |
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Culture | calues, beliefs, preferences and tastes handed down from one generation to the next |
Subcultures | groups with their own distinct modes of behavior. Understanding the differences among subcultures can help marketers develop more effective marketing strategies |
Acculturation | the degree to which newcomers have adapted to U.S. Culture. Plays a vital role in consumer behavior |
Norms | the values, attitudes, and behaviors a group deems appropriate for its members. Group members are expected to comply with these norms |
Status | IS the relative position of any individual member in a group |
roles | define group behavior that members of a group expect individuals who hold specific positions within that group |
Asch Phenomenon | individuals conform to majority rule, even when it goes against their own beliefs |
Reference groups | people or institutions 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 purchases |
Social classes | ranking determined by occupation, income, education, family background, and residence location. Can be used to determine spending practices |
Family Influences | perhaps the most important determinant of consumer behavior because of the close, continuing interactions among family members |
autonomic role family | when partners independently make equal numbers of decisions. personal-care items would fall into the category of purchase decisions each would make for himself or herself |
husband-dominant role family | occurs when the husband usually makes purchase decisions. Buying a life insurance policy is an example |
Wife-dominant role family | wife making most of certain buying decisions. Children's clothing is typical wife-dominant purchase |
Syncratic role family | refers to joint decisions. The purchase of a house follows a syncratic pattern |
Need | imbalance between a consumer's actual and desired states |
Motive | inner state that directs a person toward the goal of satisfying a need |
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs | Physiological, safety, belongingness, esteem, and self-actualization |
Perception | Meaning that a person attributes to incoming stimuli gathered through the five senses |
Stimulus factors | characteristics of the physical objects such as size, color, weight, and shape |
Individual factors | unique characteristics of the individual, including not only sensory processes but also experiences with similar inputs and basic motivations and expectations |
Perceptual screens | the mental filtering processes through which all inputs must pass |
Subliminal perception | the subconscious receipt of incoming information |
Attitudes | are a person's enduring favorable or unfavorable evaluations, emotions, or action tendencies toward some object or idea |
learning | knowledge or skill acquired as a result of experience, which changes consumer behavior |
Drive | which is 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 | is an individual's reaction to a set of cues and drives. |
Reinforcement | is the reduction in drive that results from a proper response. as a response becomes more rewarding, it creates a stronger bond between the drive and the purchase of the product, likely increasing future purchase. |
Shaping | is the process of applying a series of rewards and reinforcements to permit more complex behavior to evolve |
self-concept | Person's multifaceted picture of himself or herself |
High involvement purchase decisions | purchases with high levels of potential social and economic consequences |
Low involvement purchase decisions | routine purchases that pose little risk to the customer |
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 purchase routinely by choosing a preferred brand or one of a limited group of acceptable brands |
Limited Problem-Solving | Situation where a consumer previously set evaluative criteria for a particular kind of purchase but then encounters a new, unknown brand |
Extended Problem Solving | Results when brands are difficult to categorize or evaluate. (1) compare items (2)evaluate alternatives |