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Exam 1- ch 1 and 2

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Benefit and lifestyle studies   Examine similarities and differences in consumers’ needs. Researchers use these studies to identify two or more segments within the market for a particular company’s products.  
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Branded “blackbox” methodologies   Methodologies offered by research firms that are branded and do not provide information about how the methodology works.  
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Curbstoning   Data collection personnel filling out surveys for fake respondents.  
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Customer satisfaction studies   These studies assess the strengths and weaknesses that customers perceive in a firm’s marketing mix.  
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Customized research firms   Research firms that provide tailored services for clients.  
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Cycletime research   A research method that centers on reducing the time between the initial contact and final delivery (or installation) of the product.  
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Deanonymizing data   Combining different publicly available information, usually unethically, to determine consumers’ identities, especially on the Internet.  
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Executive dashboard   An intranet for a select group of managers who are decision makers in the company.  
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Importance performance analysis   A research approach for evaluating competitors’ strategies, strengths, limitations, and future plans.  
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Marketing research   The function that links an organization to its market through the gathering of information.  
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Opportunity assessment   Involves collecting information on product markets for the purpose of forecasting how they will change.  
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Positioning   A process in which a company seeks to establish a meaning or general definition of its product offering that is consistent with customers’ needs and preferences  
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Retailing research   Studies on topics such as trade area analysis, store image/perception, instore traffic patterns, and location analysis.  
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Situation analysis   To monitor the appropriateness of a firm’s marketing strategy and to determine whether changes to the strategy are necessary.  
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Standardized research firms   Research firms that provide general results following a standard format so that results of a study conducted for one client can be compared to norms.  
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Subject debriefing   Fully explaining to respondents any deception that was used during research.  
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Sugging/frugging   Claiming that a survey is for research purposes and then asking for a sale or donation.  
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Syndicated business services   Services provided by standardized research firms that include data made or developed from a common data pool or database.  
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Target market analysis   Information for identifying those people (or companies) that an organization wishes to serve.  
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Test marketing   Information for decisions on product improvements and newproduct introductions.  
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Causal research   collects data that enables decision makers to determine cause and effect relationships between two or more variables  
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Census   the researcher attempts to question or observe all the members of a defined target population  
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Descriptive research   collects quantitative data to answer research questions such as who, what, when, where and how  
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Exploratory research   generates insights that will help define the problem situation confronting the researcher or improves the understanding of consumer motivations, attitudes, and behavior that are not easy to access using other research methods.  
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Gatekeeper technologies   technologies such as caller id that are used to prevent intrusive marketing practices such as by telemarketers and illegal scam artists  
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Knowledge   information becomes knowledge when someone, either the researcher or the decision maker, interprets the data and attaches meaning.  
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Information research process   a systematic approach to collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and transforming data into decision making information  
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Primary data   information collected for a current research problem or opportunity  
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Research proposal   a specific document that provides an overview of the proposed research and methodology, and serves as a written contract between the decision maker and the researcher.  
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Sample   a small number of members of the target population from which the researcher collects data  
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Scientific method   research procedures should be logical, objective, systematic, reliable, and valid  
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Secondary data   information previously collected for some other problem or issue  
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Situation analysis   gathers and synthesizes background information to familiarize the researcher with the overall complexity of the problem  
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Target population   the population from which the researcher want to collect data  
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Unit of analysis   specifies whether data should be collected about individuals, households, organizations, departments, geographical areas, or some combination.  
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