Exam 2 Flashcards
What question does consumer behaviour solve
Why?
What is the consumer decision process
Need recognition
Information search
Alternative evaluation
Purchase decision
Post purchase
What are the two types of needs for need recognition
Functional needs
Psychological needs
What are the two types of information searching and what affects how hard or how long you are willing to search
Internal vs external search for information
What affects how hard
or how long you’re
willing to search?
Benefits vs. costs of search
Locus of control
Actual or perceived risk
What are the ways we evaluate alternatives
Attribute sets
Compensatory decision rule
Noncompensatory decision rule
Decision heuristics
What is post purchase dissonance
Buyers resource
What are the three factors that contribue to consumer decision process
Psychological
Social
Situational
What are physcological factors affecting consumer decision process
Motives
Attitudes
Perception
Learning
Lifestyle
Maslow hierarchy of needs
Physiological
Safety
Love and belonging
Esteem
Self Actualization
What are the three types of attitudes
Think (cognitive)
Feel (affective)
Do (behavioural)
What is the perceptual process
- Exposure: Initial stage – part of your sensory system notices a stimulus
- Attention: Devoting mental activity to a stimulus
- Interpretation: What we see (or think we see)
What is lifestyle based on
Consumer’s AIO:
Activities Interests Opinions
What falls into social factors
Social: Family, Reference Groups, Culture
What are the two types of reference groups
Direct (member)
Indirect (non-member) - Aspirational or dissociative
Explain situational when it comes to consumer decisions
Purchase situation
Shopping situation
Temporal state
What are the common segmentation bases
Geographic
Demographic
Psychographic
Behavioural
The further you go down the list the more practical powerful and meaningful they are
Each segmentation base has many segmentation variables
What is geographic segmentation
Continent, Country, Region, Province, City, Urban, Suburban, Rural, Climate
What is demographic segmentation
Age Gender Income Religion Ethnicity
Education Occupation Family Stage Marital Status Household Size…
What is psychographic segmentation base
Self-Values Self-Concept Lifestyles
What are the big 5 personality traits
Openness
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
What is behavioural segmentation base
Benefit sought
Usage
Loyalty
What is occasion segmentation
Christmas, Halloween, segmentening around a holiday or time of year
What is loyalty and usage rate segmentation
People devoted to one brand
Reward miles or reward system