Exam 2 Flashcards

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Economic Buyers

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People who know all the facts & logically compare choices to get the greatest satisfaction from spending their time and money

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Economic Needs

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Needs concerned with making the best use of a consumer’s time and money—as the consumer judges it

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Discretionary Income

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What is left of disposable income after paying for necessities

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4
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Needs

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The basic forces that motivate a person to do something

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Wants

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Needs that are learned during a person’s life

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Drive

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A strong stimulus that encourages action to reduce a need

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Physiological Needs

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Biological needs such as the need for food, drink, rest, and sex

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Safety Needs

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Needs concerned with protection and physical well-being

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Social Needs

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Needs concerned with love, friendship, status, and esteem—things that involve a person’s interaction with others

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Personal Needs

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An individual’s need for personal satisfaction unrelated to what others think or do

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Perception

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How we gather and interpret information from the world around us

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Selective Exposure

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Our eyes and minds seek out and notice only information that interests us

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Selective Perception

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People’s screen out or modify ideas, messages, and info that conflict with previously learned attitudes and beliefs

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Selective Retention

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People remember only what they want to remember

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Learning

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A change in person’s thought processes caused by prior experience

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Cues

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Products, signs, ads, and other stimuli in the environment

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Response

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An effort to satisfy a drive

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Reinforcement

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Occurs in the learning process when the consumer’s response is followed by satisfaction—that is, reduction in the drive

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Attitude

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A person’s point of view toward something

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Belief

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A person’s opinion about something

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Expectation

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An outcome or event that a person anticipates or looks forward to

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Trust

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The confidence a person has in the promises or actions of another person, brand, or company

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Psychographics (a.k.a. Lifestyle Analysis)

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The analysis of a person’s day-to-day pattern of living as expressed in that person’s Activities, Interests, and Opinions

Sometimes referred to AIOs

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Empty Nesters

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People whose children are grown and who are now able to spend their money in other ways

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Social Class

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A group of people who have approximately equal social position as viewed by others in society

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Reference Group

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The people whom an individual looks when forming attitudes about a particular topic

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Opinion Leader

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A person who influences other

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Culture

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The whole set of beliefs, attitudes, and ways of doing things of a reasonably homogeneous set of people

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Purchase Situation

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Takes into account the purpose, time available, and location where a purchase is made

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30
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Extensive Problem Solving

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When consumers put much effort into deciding how to satisfy a need

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Limited Problem Solving

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When a consumer is willing to put some effort into deciding the best way to satisfy a need

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Routinized Response Behavior

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When consumers regularly select a particular way of satisfying a need when it occurs

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Low-involvement Purchases

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Purchases that have little importance of relevance for the customer

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Dissonance

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Tension caused by uncertainty about the rightness of a decision

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Adoption Process

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The steps individuals go through on the way to accepting or rejecting new ideas

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Business and Organizational Customers

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Any buyers who buy for resale or to produce other goods and services

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Purchasing Managers

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Buying specialists for their employers

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Multiple Buying Influence

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Several people share in making a purchase decision—perhaps even top management

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Buying Center

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All the people who participate in or influence a purchase

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Requisition

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A request to buy something

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Purchasing Specifications

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A written (or electronic) description of what the firm wants to buy

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ISO 9000

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A way for a supplier to document its quality procedures according to internationally recognized standards

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New-task Buying

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When an organization has a new need and the buyer wants a great deal of information

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Straight Rebuy

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A routine repurchase that may have been made many times before

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Modified Rebuy

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The in-between process where some review of the buying situation is done—though not as much as in new-task buying or as little as in straight rebuys

46
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White Paper

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An authoritative report or guide that addresses important issues in an industry and offers solutions

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Competitive Bid

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Terms of sale offered by different suppliers in response to the buyer’s purchase specifications

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Vendor Analysis

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Formal rating of suppliers on all relevant areas of performance

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Just-in-time Delivery

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Reliably getting products there just before the customer needs them

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Negotiated Contract Buying

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Agreeing to a contract that allows for changes in the purchase arrangements

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Outsource

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When the buying organization chooses to contract with an outside firm to produce goods or services rather than producing them internally

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North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes

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Codes used to identify groups of firms in similar lines of business

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Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

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A law passed by the U.S. Congress in 1977 that prohibits U.S. firms from paying bribes to foreign officials

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Marketing Research

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Procedures to develop and analyze new information to help marketing managers make decisions

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Marketing Information System (MIS)

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An organized way of continually gathering, accessing, and analyzing information that marketing managers need to make ongoing decisions

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Big Data

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Data sets too large and complex to work with typical database management tools

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Data Warehouse

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A place where databases are stored so that they are available when needed

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Intranet

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A system for linking computers within a company

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Decision Support System (DSS)

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A computer program that makes it easy for marketing managers to get and use information as they are making decisions

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Marketing Dashboard

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Displaying up-to-the-minute marketing data in an easy-to-read format

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Marketing Model

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A statement of relationships among marketing variables

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Scientific Method

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A decision-making approach that focuses on being objective and orderly in testing ideas before accepting them

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Hypotheses

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Educated guesses about the relationships between things or about what will happen in the future

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Marketing Research Process

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A five-step application of the scientific method that includes

1) . defining the problem
2) . analyzing the situation
3) . getting problem-specific data
4) . interpreting the data
5) . solving the problem

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Situation Analysis

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An informal study of what information is already available in the problem area

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Secondary Data

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Information that has been collected or published already

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Primary Data

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Information specifically collected to solve a current problem

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Research Proposal

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A plan that specifies what marketing research information will be obtained and how

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Qualitative Research

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Seeks in-depth, open-ended responses, not yes or no answers

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Focus Group Interview

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An interview of 6 to 10 people in an informal group setting

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Quantitation Research

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Seeks structures responses that can be summarized in numbers—such as percentages averages, or other statistics.

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Response Rate

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The percent of people contacted in a research sample who complete the questionnaire

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Market Research Online Community (MROC)

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An online group of participants who are joined together by a common interest, and who participate in ongoing research

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Consumer Panels

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A group of consumers who provide information on a continuing basis

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Experimental Method

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A research approach in which researchers compare the responses of two or more groups that are similar except on the characteristic being tested

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Statistical Packages

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Easy-to-use computer programs that analyze

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Population

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In marketing research, the total group you are interested in

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Sample

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A part of the relevant population

79
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Confidence Intervals

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The range on either side of an estimate from a sample that is likely to contain the true value for the whole population

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Validity

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The extent to which data measure what they are intended to measure