Lecture 2-Perception Flashcards
What is sensation?
Our immediate response of our sensory receptors (eyes, ears, nose, mouth, skin) to basic stimuli (such as light, color, sound, odor and texture).
What is perception?
The process by which stimuli are selected, organized and interpreted. This adds to raw sensations.
What is perception influenced by?
- structural factors- contrast, position, color, size.
2. individual factors- needs, experiences, unique biases, cognitive accessibility
What are examples of sensory stimuli:
sights, sounds, smells, tastes, textures
What are examples of sensory receptors:
eyes, ears, mouth, nose and skin
What is sensory marketing?
marketing strategies that focuses on the impact of sensations on product experiences (car shows, costco samples, perfume samples)
Tell us more about how sight impacts marketing
Marketers communicate meaning through colour, size and styling
What does colour do?
- adds and directly influences emotion
- colours are rich in symbolic value and cultural meanings
- some color combinations come to be associated so strongly to a corporation that they become known as the companies trade dress
Tell us more about hearing?
- second most used sense by marketers
- limbic system process scent cues
- music is very powerful in influencing behaviour (triggers emotions)
- way a word sounds influences our assumptions about a product
Tell us more about smell?
-car and fragrance all have a scent element
-odours stir emotions and bring back memories
odours relieve stress (connect tot eh brain section that processes emotions and memories)
Tell us more about touch?
- moods are relaxed and stimulated by skin
- people associate fabrics with product quality
- touching an item to form a relationship with the product
sound symbolism:
the process by which the way a word sounds influences our assumptions about what it describes and its attributes such as size
When is sound used:
- supermarkets, stores
- restaurants/coffee shops
- waiting rooms
- elevators
- in commercials
endowment effect:
consumers ascribe more value to something simply because they own it
Taste:
first taste item will have priority. Culture influences our taste preferences
Exposure:
a stage of perception where a sensation comes within range of a consumers receptor (consumer must see/notice message)
psychophysics:
science of how the physical world is integrated with our personal subjective world. Study of physical properties of stimuli and psychological responses.
attention:
consumer must look at/attend to “your message”.
interpretation:
consumer must “make sense” of your message