Consumer behaviour Flashcards

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Definition of consumer behaviour.

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The study of the processes involved when individuals or groups select, purchase, use or dispose of products, ideas or experiences to satisfy needs and desires.

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What does consumer behaviour reflect

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the totality of decisions about the consumption of an offering by decision making units over time.

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Acquisition Usage and Disposition: define antecedents to cons. behaviour

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  • situational factors
  • mood
  • usage contexts
  • time pressure
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Acquisition Usage and Disposition: define purchase to cons behaviour

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  • shopping exp
  • sales interaction
  • point of purchase
  • stimuli
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Acquisition Usage and Disposition: define postpurchase to cons. behaviour.

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  • consumer satisfaction
  • product disposal
  • alternatives.
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What are the psychological cores to consumer behaviour

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  • motivation, ability and opportunity
  • from exposure to comprehension
  • memory and knowledge
  • attitudes.
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consumer behaviour outcomes

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  • symbolic consumer behaviour

- marketing ethics and social responsibility

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What affects consumer behav.

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Psychological factors:
Motivation, ability, and opportunity
From exposure to comprehension
Memory and knowledge
Attitudes
Decision making processes:
Problem recognition and information search
Judgment and decision making
Post-decision processes
cons. culture:
Social influences on consumer behavior

Consumer diversity

Household and social class influences

Psycholgraphics: Values, personality, and lifestyle

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What is memory?

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  • Psychological process by which knowledge is recorded
  • can be implicit or explicit
  • the persistence of learning of learning over time, via the storage and retrieval of info which can occur consciously or unconsciously.
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What is Retrieval?

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  • The process of remembering or accessing what was previously stored in memory.
  • Memory systems
    sensory, working (short term), and Long term (LTM)
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What are the 3 memory systems?

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Memory systems
sensory, working (short term),
- and Long term (LTM)

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What is Sensory Memory?

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  • storage of info that we received from all 5 senses
  • info is stored automatically, and retained only briefly
  • echoic: things we hear
  • Iconic: things we see
  • Olfactory memory: things we smell
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What is working Memory?

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  • proportion of memory where we encode or interpret incoming info and keep it available for further processing
  • short term memory
  • stores info for limited amount of time
  • level of MAO
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What is Long Term Memory?

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  • Part of memory where info is permanently stored for later use - hoyer et al 2013
  • episodic ( past experiences)
  • semantic memory (general knowledge)
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Marketing implications of memory?

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IMAGE PROCESSING
-Improves the amount of information that can be processed
-Stimulates future choice
-Realistic imagery improves consumer satisfaction
LEVERAGING EPISODIC MEMORIES
-Promoting empathy and identification
-Cueing and preserving episodic memories
- Reinterpreting past consumption experience

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How is Memory Enhanced?

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  • Recognition: The process of identifying whether we have previously encountered a stimulus when re-exposed to it.
  • Recall: The ability to retrieve information from memory without being re-exposed it.
  • Chunking:group of items that are processed as a unit
  • Rehearsal:Active and conscious interaction with the material one is trying to remember
  • Recirculation: Encountering info repeatedly
  • Elaboration: transferring info to long term memory by at deeper levels.
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Knowledge Schemas? definition

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  • info we already stored
  • Schemas – set of associations
    Vary in three dimensions
    Favourability
    Uniqueness
    Salience
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Define antecedents?

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  • situational factors
  • usage contexts
  • mood
  • time pressure
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What is Purchase?

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  • shopping experience
  • sales interaction
  • point of purchase stimuli
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What is post purchase?

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  • consumer satisfaction
  • product disposal
  • alternatives
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What is psychological core?

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  • motivation, ability and opportunity
  • from exposure to comprehension
  • memory and knowledge
  • attitudes
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What is process of making decisions?

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  • problem recognition and info search

- judgement and decision making

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What is consumer culture?

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  • social influences on behaviour
  • consumer diversity
  • social class influences
  • psychographics, values. personality and lifestyle
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Consumer behaviour outcomes?

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  • symbolic consumer behaviour

- marketing ethics and social responsibility

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What are scripts?

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  • a special type of schema that represents knowledge of a sequence
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What is a category?

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  • prototype
  • prototypicality - the extent to which an object is representative of its categories
  • hierarchical
  • correlated associations
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What are goal derived categories?

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  • things viewed as belonging in the same category as they fulfil same goals
  • Holiday (location, flight, things to do, etc.)
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What is construal theory?

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  • Different levels of abstractness in associations that a consumer has about things
  • how a consumers psychological distance influences abstractness of associations and his or her behaviour
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Memory and retrieval?

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  • decay: memory strength being weakening over time
  • interference: memory strength being detereoriated
  • serial position effects
    primacy and recency
  • retrieval errors
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What is motivation?

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  • AN inner state of activation that provides energy needed to achieve a goal.
  • comprised of needs
  • desires
  • wants
  • drives
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What is consumer involvement?

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  • A persons perceived relevance of the object based on their inherent needs, values and interests”
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cons involvement:What are enduring movements?

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  • long term interest in an offering, activity or decisions?
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cons involvement:What is situational involvement?

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  • temporary interest in an offering, activity or decision, and often caused by situational circumstances
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cons involvement; cognitive involvement

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interst in thinking about and learning info pertinent to an offering, activity or decision?

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types of cons involvement

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  • enduring movement
  • situational involvement
  • cognitive involvement
  • affective involvement
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cons involvement: affective involvement

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  • interest in expending emotional energy and evoking deep feelings bout an offering
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What determines motivation?

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  • personal relevance: something that has direct bearing on self that has potentially significant consequence or implication
  • self concept: perceived view of who one is
  • values: beliefs about what is right or wrong, important or good or bad
  • needs
  • goals
  • perceived risks
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What are Needs?

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  • A need is an internal state of tension caused by disequilibrium from an ideal or desired state.
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Categorising needs?

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  • SOCIAL (modelling, support) ««»»>Personal (safety, order, physical wellbeing)
  • SYMBOLIC (status, affiliation, belonging)««<»»self control, independence)
  • HEDONIC: (reinforcement, sex, play)««»»>(sensory, stiumulation, cognitive stimulation, novelty)
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What are goals?

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  • a goal is a particular end state or outcome that a person would like to achieve
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What is appraisal theory?

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  • a theory of emotion that proposes that emotions are on an individuals assessment of a situation or an outcome and its relevance to to his or her goals”
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What is perceived risk?

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  • “the extent to which the consumer is uncertain about the personal consequences of buying, using or disposing of an offering.”
  • risk tends to be higher when:
  • new offering
  • high price
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Types of risk?

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  • social (status)
  • time (commitment)
  • physical (safety)
  • psychological (reflects self concept)
  • financial (high price)
  • time ( commitment)
  • performance (work as expected)
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What is ability?

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  • ability is the extent to which a consumer has the necessary resources to make an outcome happen?
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What is the perceptual process?

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  • exposure»>attention»>perception»»comprehension
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Perceptual process: exposure

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a process by which a consumer comes into physical contract with stimulus

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Perceptual process: attention

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  • attention: the amount of mutual activity a consumer devotes
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Perceptual process: perception?

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  • the process of determining the properties of stimuli using vision, hearing, taste, smell and touch
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When do consumers perceive stimuli?

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ABSOLUTE THRESHOLDS- the lowest point at which an individual can detect a difference between ‘something’ and ‘nothing’
DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLDS: - the minimal difference that can be detected between 2 stimuli

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What are attitudes?

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  • an overall evaluation that expresses how much we like or dislike an object, issue, person or action
    hoyer et al 2013
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power/significance of attitudes

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  • an attitude is a predisposition to evaluate an object or product positively or negatively
    important because:
  • guide our thoughts (cognitive function)
  • influence our feelings (affective function)
  • affect our behaviour (connative function)
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functions of attitudes?

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  • utilitarian: reward/punishment
  • value: consumers central values/ self concept
  • ego defensive: protect consumers from external threats/internal feelings
  • knowledge: need for meaning/structure
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characteristics of attitudes?

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FAVOURABILITY: how do we like something
ACCESSIBILITY: how easily can an attitude be retrievbed
CONFIDENCE: what is the strength of an attitude
PERSISTANCE: how long does an attitude last
RESISTANCE: the degree to which an attitude can change
AMBIVALENCE: having mixed evaluations

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attitude formation: the ABC model

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  • Affect: how a consumer feels about an attitude object
  • Behaviour: the consumers intention to do something with regard to an attitude object
  • Cognition: the beliefs a consumer has about an attitude object
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high efforts vs low effort routes to attitude formation/change?

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  • central route: attitude formation and change when effort is high
    peripheral route: the attitude formation and change process when effort is low.
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expectancy value models?

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theory of reasoned action (TORA):

- provides an expanded pictures of how hwen and why attitudes predict consumer behaviour.

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Marketing implications?

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  • diagnosing existing attitudes
  • changing consumer attitudes
  • change beliefs
  • changes evaluations
  • add a new belief
  • imagined experience
  • target normative beliefs
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what is affective response?

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  • when consumers generate feelings and images in response to a message
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what are unconscious influences?

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  • low effort situations occur below conscious awareness
  • thin slice judgement(first impression)
  • body feedback (physical reactions)
  • inferences based on associations
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Influencing cognitive based attitudes

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  • communication source
  • messgae
  • category and schema consistent info
  • many message arguments
  • simple messages
  • involving messages
  • context and repetition
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Affective bases of attitudes

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  • mere exposure effect
  • classical and evaluative conditioning
  • attitude toward the ad
  • mood
    classical conditioning be:
    UCS»>UCR»>CR»»CS
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factors affecting affective attitudes?

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  • attractiveness
  • likeability
  • celebrity
  • pleasant pictures
  • music
  • humor
  • sex
  • emotional content
  • context