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Advertising Flashcards

1
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Consumer factors that vary with age

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Desires and preferences
search to fulfill desires/preferences
final decision and purchase
product evalutation

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Stages based on the factors

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Feeling wants and preferences
nagging and negotiations
adventure and the first purchase
conformity and fastidiousness
adolescent skepticism

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What age are the consumer in the feeling wants and preferences stage?

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Infancy and toddlerhood

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4
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Are the consumer in the feeling wants and preferences stage worth advertising to?

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Yes, toddlers recognize products seen on TV

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How often do 18–24-month-old kids start asking for products in the feeling wants and preferences stage?

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About 18 product requests during 25 minutes of shopping

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What age is the Nagging and Negotiations stage?

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Preschool

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7
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The consumers in the nagging and negotiation stage have brand preferences. How might these preferences effect their senses?

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Food might “taste better” when it is preferred brand packing
Ex. Carrots and milk are better when they have Mcdonalds packaging

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What stage do consumers first experience pseudo-independent purchases?

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Nagging and negotiation

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9
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What are preschoolers understanding of commercials?

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They are a source of information and think they have their best interest in mind

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What age is a consumer in the adventure and first purchase stage?

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Age 5-8

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What does a consumer understand by age 8?

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That commercials are attempting to increase purchases

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True or False: Nagging becomes more effective during the adventure and first purchase stage.

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True

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13
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Theory of Mind

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Understanding that other actions are motivated by internal mental states

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What is the “first-order belief”?

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The realization that others’ beliefs and desires may be different than their own, age 3-4

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Second-Order Beliefs

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beliefs about someone else’s mental state regarding another person’s mental state, age 10-12

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16
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What do youth with SoB realize?

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That advertisements are designed to act on another person’s set of opinions/beliefs
Ex. the message is designed to increase or decrease liking of a product

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What age are the consumers in the conformity and fastidiousness stage?

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Age 8-12

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18
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When a consumer reaches the age of 8-12 years old they…

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Now appreciate the quality of products and their is an increased purchase of collections

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Tweens view commercials negatively but…

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Commercials increase tween’s desires for advertised products

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What are the 4 types of tweens?

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Persuaders, edges, followers, and reflexives

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Persuader

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Most popular tweens that others often look up to and imitate

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Edges

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Independent rebellious teens that are supposedly anti-brand, they wear brands that they “discover”

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Followers

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Main group of tweens that follow the persuaders

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Reflexives

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Usually, followers who are unsuccessful in increasing their popularity and picking up on new trends

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Adolescents develop cognitive abilities like introspection and formal logic during the adolescent skepticism stage. What does this allow them to do as consumers?

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-More effectively decide wants and needs
-Personal experience with products increasingly
influences purchases
- consumer socialization is nearly complete

26
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Covert marketing

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Messages appear to be from independent parties but are company driven

27
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What are the 2 general types of covert marketing?

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Disguised communicator and disguised format

28
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What are 2 types of disguised communicators?

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Posers and Buzz Marketing

29
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What is the type of disguised format?

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Advertorials

30
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Posers

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Actors pretending researchers conducting a survey to explain products benefits and give potential consumers the chance to examine, sample, or us a prodyct

31
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Buzz marketing

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recruitment of people to talk about products through free samples or discounts before the product is available to general public

32
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Advertorials

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Ads that appear to be from independent sources
Infomercials that appear to be consumer tv shows
Ads that appear to be editoral content

33
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Materialism

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importance that a person places on their possessions, either for self-enhancement or in an effort to define themselves

34
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What factors show that youth is high in materialism?

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Value toys over friends, purchase more products, are more influenced by ads

35
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When does materialism peak?

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Between ages 12 and 13 then decreases slightly

36
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Factors that increase materialism

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Materialistic parents, ineffective levels of peer communication, watching more tv which exposes them to more commericals

37
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During early adolescence, self-esteem is ___________and materialism is ___________.

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Lowest, highest

38
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What materialistic things to teens do relating to self-esteem?

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Buy goods in an attempt to raise self-esteem

39
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Why do advertisements target children and adoelscents?

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Brand loyalty!!!!!!!!!!!

40
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What are 2 of the reasons that advertisers target youth?

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Purchasing power and pester power

41
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Purchasing power

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Parents seek their children’s opinions when buying products for family
When it comes to clothes/shoes and fast food, children make decision with parents

42
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Pester power

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98% of kids ask for things when accompanying parent to a store

43
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In what ways do tweens have power as consumers?

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Spread trends virally in peer groups, don’t have own income so they pester parents to buy

44
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How are parents effected by the power of tweens?

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May feel pressure to buy stuff for kids for their own social status, divorced parents might guilt spend to make up lost time with kids

45
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Why do marketers start advertising to people at such a young age>

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Cradle to grave “brand loyalty”

46
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What are the top commercial categories that target children aged 2-7

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Junk food, cereal, toys, fast food restaurants

47
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What are the top commercial categories that target tweens and teens?

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Music, video, other electronic media

48
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What are techniques used to persuade youth?

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Premium prizes, exaggeration, on-package marketing, co-branding, advergames, and celebrity endorsements

49
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What might be a risk of using a celebrity?

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Celebrity might overshadow product, may be exposed which reduces credibility, and negative behavior could pose risk for company

50
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What is a very common technique used to persiade youth that wasn’t mentioned previously?

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Brand mascots

51
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Why use brand mascots?

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Children often recognize the mascot which helps them recall the product, they also develop positive attitudes toward product

52
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What is a benefit for a company of using a brand mascot?

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The mascot is less likely to be in scandals

53
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What is a kidfluencer?

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Child social influencer

54
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Brand/ Product Placement

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Companys place visible brands and products in tv shows and movies, so they are exposed more to youth

55
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Source effects in advertising persuasion

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Source credibility (trustworthiness and expertise) and physical appearance

56
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Source attractiveness

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Perceived similarity-familiarity=likeability

57
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Meaning transfer

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the attractive responses toward the source are transferred to the product

58
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Formation of parasocial relationships

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one-way interactions in which the individual feels an emotional connection towards a media-based character

59
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Parasocial contact hypothesis

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cognitive and affective responses following exposure to media characters are similar to those produced by direct contact experiences

60
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3 primary intended effects of advertising

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  1. increasing brand awareness
  2. creating positive brand attitudes
  3. influencing purchasing requests/behavior
61
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Children’s advertising review unit (CARU)

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reviews and evaluates child-directed advertising

62
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Example of CARU in effect

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Applejack cereal commercial- Bad apple is trying to beat CinnaMon to a bowl of Applejacks to make it taste more like apples
CARU states that fruits are being presented in a negative way

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