Chapter 4 Flash cards

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What is comprehension?

A

the way people understand things

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What is signal theory?

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explains ways in which communications convey meaning beyond the explicit or obvious interpretation

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3
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What is PMG?

A

price matching guarantee.

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4
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What is physical characteristics?

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tangible elements or the parts of a message that can be sensed

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What is golden section?

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a preferred ratio of objects, equal to 1.62 to 1.00

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what is message congruity?

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extent to which a message is internally consistent and fits surrounding information

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What is figure?

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object that is intended to capture a person’s attention, the focal part of any message

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what is ground?

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background in a message

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what is figure-ground distinction?

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notion that each message can be separated into the focal point (figure) and the background (ground)

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what is figurative language?

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use of expressions that send a nonliteral meaning

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11
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what is expertise?

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amount of knowledge that a source is perceived to have about a subject

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what is trustworthiness

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how honest and unbiased the source appears to be

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what is credibility?

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extent to which a source is considered to be both an expert in a given area and trustworthy

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14
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what is counterarguments?

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thoughts that contradict a message

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what is support arguements?

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thoughts that further support a message

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16
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what is habituation?

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process by which continuous exposure to a stimulus affects the comprehension of, and response to, the stimulus

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17
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what is adaption level?

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level of a stimulus to which a consumer has become accustomed

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18
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what are expectation?

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beliefs about what will happen in some future situation

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19
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what is brain dominance?

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Some people tend to be either right brain– or left brain–dominant

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what is metaphor?

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in a consumer context, an ad claim that is not literally true but figuratively communicates a message

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21
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what is information intensity?

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amount of information available for a consumer to process within a given environment

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22
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what is framing?

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a phenomenon in which the meaning of something is influenced (perceived differently) by the information environment

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what is prospect theory?

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how an aruement is framed impacts how a customer will do risk assesments

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24
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what is priming?

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cognitive process in which context or environment activates concepts and frames thoughts and therefore affects both value and meaning

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25
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what is Construal level?

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whether or not we are thinking about something using a concrete or an abstract mindset

26
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what is memory?

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process by which knowledge is recorded

27
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what is multiple store theory of memory?

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theory that explains memory as utilizing three different storage areas within the human brain: sensory, workbench, and long-term

28
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What is sensory memory?

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area in memory where a consumer stores things exposed to one fo the five senses

29
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what is iconic storage?

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storage of visual information

30
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what is echoic storage?

A

storage of auditory information in sensory memory

31
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what is haptic perception?

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interpretations created by the way some object feels

32
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what is work bench or working memory?

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storage area in the memory system where information is stored while it is being processed and encoded for later recall

33
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what is encoding?

A

process by which information is transferred from workbench memory to long-term memory for permanent storage

34
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what is retrieval?

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process by which information is transferred back into workbench memory for additional processing when needed

35
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what is repetition?

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simple mechanism in which a thought is kept alive in short-term memory by mentally repeating the thought

36
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what is dual coding?

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coding that occurs when two different senses are used to remember something

37
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what is meaningful encoding?

A

long-term memory is placed on the workbench and attached to the information on the workbench in a way that the information can be recalled and used later

38
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what is chunking?

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process of grouping stimuli by meaning so that multiple stimuli can become one memory unit. Examples phone numbers.

39
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what is cognitive interference?

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notion that everything else that the consumer is exposed to while trying to remember something is also vying for processing capacity and thus interfering with memory and comprehension

40
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what is a chunk

A

single memory unit

41
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what is response generation?

A

reconstruction of memory traces into a formed representation of what they are trying to remember or process

42
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what is long term memory?

A

repository for all information that a person has encountered

43
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what is semantic coding?

A

type of coding wherein stimuli are converted to meaning that can be expressed verbally

44
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what is memory trace?

A

mental path by which some thought becomes active

45
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what is spreading activation?

A

way cognitive activation spreads from one concept (or node) to another

46
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what is tag?

A

small piece of coded information that helps with the retrieval of knowledge

47
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what is rumination?

A

unintentional but recurrent memory of long-ago events that are spontaneously (not evoked by the environment) triggered

48
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what is nostaliga?

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a yearning to relive the past that can produce lingering emotions

49
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what is elaboration?

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extent to which a consumer continues processing a message even after an initial understanding is achieved

50
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what is personal elaboration?

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process by which people imagine themselves somehow associating with a stimulus that is being processed

51
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what is associative network?

A

network of mental pathways linking knowledge within memory; sometimes referred to as a semantic network

52
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what is decrative knowledge?

A

cognitive components that represent facts

53
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what are nodes?

A

concepts found in an associative network

54
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what are paths?

A

representations of the association between nodes in an associative network

55
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what is schema?

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a portion of an associative network that represents a specific entity and thereby provides it with meaning

56
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what is exemplar?

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proposes that human memory assigns objects and ideas into broad categories and when confronted with a new object, the mind is able to place the new object into its appropriate category.

57
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what is prototype?

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best or average exemplar of a category. For example, the prototypical bird is some kind of mental average of all the different kinds of birds of which a person has knowledge or with which a person has had experience.

58
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what is script?

A

schema representing an event

59
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what is episodic memory?

A

memory for past events in one’s life

60
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what is social schema?

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Knowledge of how people behave in certain situations. Helps us know how to behave.

61
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what is social sterotype?

A

another word for social schema

62
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what is social identity?

A

the idea that one’s individual identity is defined in part by the social groups to which one belongs