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Ch 9: Decision Making Flashcards

1
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Every consumer decision made is a response to a _____

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problem

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For many of us our biggest problems is not having too few choices, but rather too many

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Hyperchoice

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The perspective of ____ argues that we evaluate the effort we’ll need to make a particular choice and then tailor the amount of cognitive “effort” we expend to get the job done

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constructive processing

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What are the 3 different types of decision making?

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  • cognitive
  • habitual
  • affective
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What type of decision making is this?

deliberate, rational, and sequential

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cognitive

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What decision making type is this?

behavioral, unconscious, and automatic

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habitutal

buying coffee –> something you buy everyday

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what type of decision making is this?

emotional and instantaneous

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affective

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10
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Traditionally, consumer researchers approached decision making from a ____ . According to this view, people integrate as much information as possible with what they already know about a product, weigh the pluses and minuses of each laternative, and arrive at a satisfactory decision

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rational perspective

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What are the 5 stages in consumer decision making?

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  1. problem recognition
  2. information search
  3. evaluation of alternatives
  4. product choice
  5. outcomes
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12
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____ occurs when we experience a significant difference between our current state of affairs and some state we desire

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problem recognition

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13
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A problem may arise in one of two ways:

stages of decision making

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  1. a decline in the quality of the actual state (need recognition)
  2. a change in the ideal state (opportunity recognition)
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14
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____ is the process by which we survey the environment for appropriate data to make a reasonable decision

stages of decision making

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information search

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____: when you recognize a need and then search the marketplace for specific information

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prepurchase search

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16
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____: information retrieval that involves recalling past experiences and information regarding various purchase alternatives

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internal search

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17
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____: seeking information from external sources

internet, personal, and public sources
marketer-controlled sources

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external search

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18
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____: the search involves external search activities independent of solving an immediate purchase problem

fashion item and camera

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ongoing search

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What’s the relationship between the amount of information search and product knowledge?

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  • Moderate knowledge = highest amount of search
  • Least knowledge = low amount of search (not interested or don’t know where to search)
  • Most knowledge = low amount of search (they already know everything)

Upside down U-shaped

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21
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The alternatives a consumer knows about are called the ____ and the ones they seriously consider are known as _____

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evoked set; consideration set

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____: once we assemble and evaluate the relecant options in a category, eventually we hav to choose one

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product choice

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23
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____ occurs when products become too overly complex with myriad features the typical consumer connot or has difficulty understanding

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feature creep

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24
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____: occurs when we experience the product or service we selected and decide whether it meets our expectations

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postpurchase evaluation

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25
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____: a conundrum in which marketers must create sufficiently high expectations to induce brand trial, but not so high as engender disappointment

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satisfaction paradox

26
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Consumer cognitively represent product information in a _____

refers to a set of bleiefs & the way we organize them in our minds

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knowledge structure

27
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What are the 3 categories of categorization?

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  1. superordinate
  2. basic level
  3. subordinate
28
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Strategic implications of product categorization

4 of them

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  • position a product
  • identify competitors
  • creat an exemplar product
  • locate products in a store
29
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____ are the dimensions we use to jedge the merits of competing options

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evaluative criteria

30
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Criteria on which products differ from one another carry _ weight in the decision process than do those where the alternatives are similar

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more

31
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____ are the features we actually use to differentiate among our choices

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Determinant attributes

32
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Under conditions of ____ cognitive involvement, people tend to think carefully about the pros and cons of various options

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high

33
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The ____ rule allows a product to make up for its shortcomings on one dimension by excelling on another

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compensatory

34
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The ____ rule leads to the option that has the largest number of positive attributes

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simple additive

35
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A ____ rule allows the consumer to take into account the relative importance of the attributes by weighting each one

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weighted additive

36
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When we make habirtual or emotional decisions we typically use a ____ rule. This means that if an option doesn’t suit us on one dimension, we just reject it out of hand and move on to something else

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noncompensatory

37
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The ____ rule says “select the brand that is the best on the most important attribute

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lexicographic

38
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The ____ rule is similar to the lexicographic rule beacuse they buyer evaluates brands on the most important attribute. In this case, though, s/he imposes specific cut-offs. Alternatives that fail below the onsumer imposed cutoffs get eliminated. Process continues until a single alternative remains

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elimination-by-aspect

39
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The ____ rule entails processing by brand (not by attribute)

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conjunctive

40
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____ decision making describes the choices we make with little or no conscious effort

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Habitual

41
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Why does a person buy the same brand over and over?

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inertia
brand loyalty

42
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____ involves less effort to pick a familiar brand

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inertia

43
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____ describes a pattern of repeat purchasing behavior that involves a conscious decision to continue buying the sam brand

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brand loyalty

44
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____ solution: we want to arrive at the best result possible outcome

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maximizing

45
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____ solution: we seek simply to receive an adequate outcome

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satisfycing

46
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“good enough” perspective on decision making is called ____

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bounded rationality

47
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Maximizers or sacrificers?

exhaustively seek the best
compare decisions with others
expend more time and energy
unhappier with outcomes

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maximizer

48
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____: mental shortcuts, mental rules-of-thumb

e.g. higher-priced products are higer-quality products

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Heuristics

49
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The association among events that may or may not actually influence one another is known as ____

e.g. judgin a used car’s mechanical condition by its appearance

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covariation

50
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____ : where a product is produced matters. Consumers strongly associate certain items wth specific countries

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country of origin (COO)

51
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____ refers to the belief that products from other places are inferior to local versions

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ethnocentrism

52
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We sometimes witness ____ toward a brand due to an intense dislike for the manufacturer

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consumer animosity

53
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We like brand names that we know and that have been around a long time

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family brand names

54
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many people assume that a ____ priced alternative is better quality tan a ____ priced option

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higher; lower

55
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____ : the effect in which recent experience of a stimulus facilitates or inhibits later processing of the same or a similar stimulus

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priming

56
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Cues in the environment that make us more likely to react in a certain way even though we’re ____ of these influences

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unaware

57
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in psychology, ____ is a technique in which the introduction of on stimulus influences how people respond to a subsequent stimulus

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priming

58
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____ : the process of defining the context or issues surrounding a question, problem, or event in a way that serves to influence how the context or issues are perceived and evaluated

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framing

59
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A ____ , is any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people’s behavior in predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives

e.g. the arrangement of foods at a buffet

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nudge

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