Exam 1 Flashcards
Conceptual Model
the model used to capture the general structure and process of consumer behavior
Consumer Behavior
The study of individuals, groups, or organizations and the processes they use to select, secure, use, and dispose of products, services, experiences, or ideas to satisfy needs and the impacts that these processes have on the consumer and society.
Consumer Cost
everything the consumer must surrender in order to receive the benefits of owning/using the product.
Customer Satisfaction
Retaining current customers requires that they be satisfied with their purchase and use of the product.
Customer Value
the difference between all the benefits derived from a total product and all the costs of acquiring those benefits.
Distribution
having the product available where target customers can buy it.
Injurious Consumption
when individuals or groups make consumption decisions that have negative consequences for their long run well being.
Lifestyle
how one lives
Marketing Communication
advertising, the sales force, public relations, packaging, and any other signal that the firm provides about itself and its products.
Marketing Mix
The product, price, communications, distribution, and services provided to the target market.
Marketing Strategy
How we will provide superior customer value to our target market.
Market Segment
a portion of a larger market whose needs differ somewhat from the larger market.
Need Set
satisfying more than one need
Price
amount of money one must pay to obtain the right to use the product.
Product
anything a consumer acquires or might acquire to meet a perceived need.
Product Position
an image of the product or brand in the consumer’s mind relative to competing products and brands.
Self-Concept
the totality of an individuals thoughts and feelings about him or herself.
Service
auxiliary or peripheral activities that are performed to enhanced the primary product or primary service.
Social Marketing
the application of marketing strategies and tactics to alter or create behaviors that have a positive effect on the targeted individuals or society as a whole.
Target Market
the segments of the larger market on which we will focus our marketing effort
Total Product
bundle of services offered by a product/service
Cultural values
widely held belief that affirms what is desirable
culture
the complex whole that includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, customs, and any other capabilities, and habits acquired by humans as members of societies.
demographics
describe a population in terms of size, structure and distribution.
environment-oriented values
prescribe a society’s relationship to its economic and technical as well as its physical environment.
glocalization
cross cultural variations in such factors as values and demographics may make it necessary to adapt products and services to local consideration.
Guanxi
personal connections/relationships on which an individual can draw to secure resources or advantages when doing business as well as in the course of social life.
The main characteristics
1. the notion of a continuing reciprocal relationships over an indefinite period of time.
- favors are banked
- it extends beyond the relationships between two parties to include other parties within its social network.
- the relationship net work is built among individuals and not organizations.
- status matters- relationships with a senior will extend to his subordinates but not vice versa.
- the social relationship is prior to and a prerequisite to the business relationship.
Instrumental materialism
the acquisition of things to enable one to do something.
Monochronic time perspective
believing that a person does one thing at a time. We have a strong orientation toward the present and short -term future.
Nonverbal communication system
the arbitrary meaning a culture assigns actions, events and things other than words.
Norms
rules that specify or prohibit certain behaviors in specific situations
Other-oriented values
reflect a society’s view of the appropriate relationships between individuals and groups within that society.
Personal Space
The nearest that others can come to you in various situations without you feeling uncomfortable.
Polychronic time perspective
An orientation toward the present and past.
Power Distance
the degree to which people accept inequality in power, authority, status, and wealth as natural or inherent in society.
Purchasing power parity (PPP)
based on cost of a standard market basket of products bought in each company.
Sanctions
penalties ranging from mild social disapproval to banishment from the group
Self-Oriented values
reflect the objectives and approaches to life that the individual members of society find desirable
Terminal materialism
the acquisition of items for the sake of owning the item itself.
Verbal communication systems
languages
Achievement Role
performance criteria over which the individual has some degree of control.
Ascribed Role
an attribute over which the individual has little or no control
Cause-related marketing (CRM)
marketing that ties a company and its products to an issue or cause with the goal of improving sales or corporate image while providing benefits to the cause.
Cultural Values
widely held beliefs that affirm what is desirable
Enviropreneurial marketing
environmentally friendly marketing practices, strategies, and tactics initiated by a firm to achieve a competitive differentiation.
Gender
whether a person is biologically a male or female
Gender Identity
the traits of femininity and masculinity
Gender Roles
the behaviors considered appropriate for males and females in a given society.
Green Marketing
- developing products whose productions, use or disposal is less harmful to the environment than the traditional versions of the product.
- Developing products that have a positive impact in the environment
- Tying the purchase of a product to an environmental organizations or event.
Greenwashing
a firm promotes environmental benefits that are unsubstantiated and on which they don’t deliver.
Modern gender orientation
a marriage in which husband and wife share responsibilities. Both work, and they share homemaking and child care responsibilities.
Traditional gender orientation
A marriage in which the husband assumes the responsibility for providing for the family and the wife runs the house and takes care of the children
Voluntary simplicity
Consumers efforts to reduce their reliance on consumption and material possession
Age cohort
group of persons who have experienced a common social, political, historical, and economic environment.
Class to mass
expanding opportunities for less affluent consumers to afford luxury
cognitive age
one’s perceived age, a part of one’s self concept.
cohort analysis
the process of describing and explaining the attitudes, values, and behaviors of an age group as well as predicting its future attitudes, values and behaviors.
conspicuous consumption
the purchase and prominent display of luxury goods to provide evidence of a consumer’s ability to afford them
consumer literacy
the ability to find and manipulate text and numbers to accomplish consumption related task within a specific market context in which other skills and knowledge are also employed.
demographic
describes a population in terms of its size, distribution and structure.
Digital Savvy
leading edge digital users who are early adopters and diffusers of information related to technology in terms of technology ownership, internet usage, and cellphone feature usage.
Generation
group of persons who have experienced a common social political, historical, and economic development.
Gerontographic
one segmentation approach to the mature market that incorporates aging processes and life events related to physical health and mental outlook of older consumers.
Index of Social Position
a two item index that is well developed and widely used. Used to measure an individuals or family overall social position within a community.
Mature Market
55 years or older
Multi-item indexes
numerous variables simultaneously and weight these according to a scheme that reflects societal views.
Nouveaux Riches
- (often plural) a person who has acquired wealth recently and is regarded as vulgarly ostentatious or lacking in social graces
Single item indexes
estimates social status on the basis of a single dimensions such as education, income, or occupation.
Social class system
a hierarchical division of a society into relatively distinct and homogeneous groups with respect to attitudes, values, and lifestyles.
Societal Rank
ones position relative to others on one or more dimensions valued by society.
Status Crystallization
he extent to which different indicators of a person’s status are consistent with one another
Subjective discretionary income
an estimate by the consumers of how much money he/she has available to spend on nonessential.
Working class aristocrats
do real work and is often unappreciated.
Acculturation
the degree to which an immigrant has adapted to his or her new culture.
Born- again Christians
a strong belief in the literal truth of the Bible, a very strong commitment to their religious beliefs, having had a “born again” experience, and encouraging other to believe in Jesus Christ.
Ethnic subcultures
those whose members unique shared behaviors are based on a common racial, language, or national background.
Event Marketing
creating or sponsoring an event that has a particular appeal to a market segment
Hispanics
a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race.
Regional subcultures
the natural environment and resources, the characteristics of the various immigrant groups that have settled in each region, and significant social and political events.
Religious subcultures
worship of (brand communities) and cult products
Secular socierty
the education system, government, and political process are not controlled by a religious group, and most peoples daily behaviors are not guided by strict religious guidelines.
Subculture
a segment of a larger culture whose members share distinguishing values and patterns of behavior
Consumer skills
those capabilities necessary for purchases to occur such as understanding money, budgeting, product evaluation, and so forth,
Consumer socialization
the process by which young people acquire skills, knowledge, and attitudes relevant, to their functioning as consumers in their marketplace.
Consumption related attitudes
cognitive and affective orientations toward marketplace stimuli such as advertisements, salespeople, warranties and so forth.
Consumption Related Preferences
are the knowledge, attitudes, and values that cause people to attach differential evaluations to products, brands, and retail outlets.
Family decision making
the process by which decisions that directly or indirectly involve two or more family members are made.
Family Household
as one having at least two members related by birth, marriage or adoption, one of whom is the householder (householder owns or rents the residence)
HLC/ occupational category matrix
determines the problems the household will likely encounter; the horizontal axis is a set of occupational categories, which provides a range of acceptable solution.