Chapter 4 Flash cards
What is comprehension?
the way people understand things
What is signal theory?
explains ways in which communications convey meaning beyond the explicit or obvious interpretation
What is PMG?
price matching guarantee.
What is physical characteristics?
tangible elements or the parts of a message that can be sensed
What is golden section?
a preferred ratio of objects, equal to 1.62 to 1.00
what is message congruity?
extent to which a message is internally consistent and fits surrounding information
What is figure?
object that is intended to capture a person’s attention, the focal part of any message
what is ground?
background in a message
what is figure-ground distinction?
notion that each message can be separated into the focal point (figure) and the background (ground)
what is figurative language?
use of expressions that send a nonliteral meaning
what is expertise?
amount of knowledge that a source is perceived to have about a subject
what is trustworthiness
how honest and unbiased the source appears to be
what is credibility?
extent to which a source is considered to be both an expert in a given area and trustworthy
what is counterarguments?
thoughts that contradict a message
what is support arguements?
thoughts that further support a message
what is habituation?
process by which continuous exposure to a stimulus affects the comprehension of, and response to, the stimulus
what is adaption level?
level of a stimulus to which a consumer has become accustomed
what are expectation?
beliefs about what will happen in some future situation
what is brain dominance?
Some people tend to be either right brain– or left brain–dominant
what is metaphor?
in a consumer context, an ad claim that is not literally true but figuratively communicates a message
what is information intensity?
amount of information available for a consumer to process within a given environment
what is framing?
a phenomenon in which the meaning of something is influenced (perceived differently) by the information environment
what is prospect theory?
how an aruement is framed impacts how a customer will do risk assesments
what is priming?
cognitive process in which context or environment activates concepts and frames thoughts and therefore affects both value and meaning