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Lecture 4: Emotional Appeals Flashcards

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Emotional appeals have a direct effect on the peripheral route.

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True.

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Emotional appeals have less reactance than argument appeals.

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True.

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Emotional appeals are easier to remember and are easier to access from memory.

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True.

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Emotional appeals have direct behavioural effects.

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True.

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Emotional appeals require less processing effort.

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True.

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Emotional appeals require more processing power as they can be mentally draining.

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False.

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Emotional appeals are easier to implement than argument based messages.

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False.

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Emotional appeals are more difficult to implement than argument-based messages.

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True.

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Emotional appeals work best when consumers have high involvement.

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False.

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Emotional appeals work best when consumers have low involvement.

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True.

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Fear appeal is divided into two parts; informational about threats, and recommendation on how to avoid it.

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True.

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Fear appeals are contents of persuasive communication which allude to or describe unfavourable consequences that are alleged to result from failure to adopt and adhere to the communicator’s conclusions.

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True.

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Self-efficacy is having the self confidence in one’s own ability to carry out behaviour.

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True.

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Response-efficacy is having the belief in the recommended response’s effectiveness.

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True.

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The relationship between fear and persuasion has a linear positive relationship.

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True.

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16
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Shock used in MC is used to deliberately rather than inadvertently startle and offend the audience.

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True.

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Shock creates surprise through norm violations and unexpectedness.

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True.

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18
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Shock leads to attention, comprehension, elaboration, but can also cause negative feelings.

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True.

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Guilt arises from doing something that violates one’s standards or by failing to take proper actions.

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True.

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Guilt arises when MC leads people to think about their standards, evokes self-awareness, focusses on victims similar to the target market.

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True.

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21
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MC can encourage people to anticipate guilt if they ignore advice.

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True.

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22
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The effects of humour in advertising on ad attitudes are stronger than that of most other persuasion tools and techniques.

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True.

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The effects of humour in advertising are weaker than that of most other persuasion tools and techniques.

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False.

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There are three ways to operationalize humour in MC; stimulus, behavioural response, and perception.

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True.

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Humour in MC typically involves some kind of incongruity that violates a predominating view. If individuals resolve this incongruity, they experience humour.

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True.

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26
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Humour originates in the repressed expression of sexual and aggressive feelings.

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True.

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27
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Humour is a release and relief mechanism that individuals need to get rid of physical and psychological tensions.

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True.

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Humour demonstrates superiority and elevates social status by laughing about others and their misfortunes.

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True.

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29
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Congruency effect is where a positive affect increases positive ad-related cognitions.

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True.

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30
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Music consists of three elements; time, pitch and texture.

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True.

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31
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High message-music-congruency can lead to distraction (can have positive or negative effects).

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False.

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32
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Low message-music congruency can lead to distraction (can have positive or negative effects).

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True.

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33
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Low message-music-congruency increases attention and elaboration likelihood.

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False.

34
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High message-music-congruency increases attention and elaboration likelihood.

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True.

35
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Arousal and attention increase motivation to process information, but can decrease ability to process due to distraction.

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True.

36
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Metaphors are a representation of one thing in terms of another, non-literal representations (e.g., butterfly conveys the idea of gentleness, the term “up” represents an emotional state.

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True.

37
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Narratives communicate through a story-like format, with characters, plots, and dramatic structure.

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True.

38
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Narratives are ineffective because of transportation (attention, imagery, and a pleasurable flow-like state), mental stimulation, identification with characters.

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False.

39
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Narratives are effective because of transportation (attention, imagery, and a pleasurable flow-like state), mental stimulation, identification with characters.

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True.

40
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Personification / anthropomorphism is the process of transferring human characteristics to objects (e.g., M&Ms).

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True.

41
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Anthropomorphism has positive effects due to evolutionary roots, baby scheme.

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True.

42
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Anthropomorphisms enhance understanding, bonding, liking of and identification with a brand.

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True.

43
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Colour affects perceptions of mood in MC.

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True.

44
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Colour affects mood and emotions of audience.

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True.

45
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Green advertising is focused on promoting environment, healthy people, place and things.

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True.

46
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The colour green works best for environmentally concerned consumers.

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True.

47
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Creativity in advertising is the production of something that is both original and useful.

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True.

48
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Divergence is when an ad contains elements that are novel, different, or unusual.

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True.

49
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Relevance is the degree to which the various elements of an ad are meaningful, useful, or valuable to the consumer.

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True.

50
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Affect transfer is where the liking of a creative ad transfers to liking the brand.

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True.

51
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Signaling is when creative ads convey effort and ability on behalf of the sender, thus the brand is perceived and evaluated positively.

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True.

52
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Channels and MC trends include new technological possibilities such as virtual reality, augmented reality and chat bots.

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True.

53
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Native advertising is a type of marketing that involves the creation and sharing of online material that does not explicitly promote a brand but is intended to stimulate interest in its products or services.

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False.

54
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Content marketing is a type of marketing that involves the creation and sharing of online material that does not explicitly promote a brand but is intended to stimulate interest in its products or services.

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True.

55
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Content marketing is a type of advertising, mostly online, that matches the form and function of the platform upon which it appears.

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False.

56
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Native advertising is a type of advertising, mostly online, that matches the form and function of the platform upon which it appears.

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True.

57
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Branded Entertainment is a form of advertising that blends marketing and entertainment through television, film, music talent, and technology.

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True.

58
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Branded Entertainment is the use of entertainment media to gain consumers’ attention and exposure to products/brands.

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True.

59
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Repetition works by mere exposure which increases attitude with increasing number of exposures to the ad.

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True.

60
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High repetition rates indicate low advertising costs.

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False.

61
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Low repetition rates indicate high advertising costs.

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False.

62
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High repetition rates indicate high advertising costs.

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True.

63
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High advertising costs indicate greater manufacturer effort and higher manufacturer confidence in brand quality.

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True.

64
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High advertising costs indicate lower manufacturer effort and lower manufacturer confidence in brand quality as compensation.

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False.

65
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Consumers associate higher advertising costs with higher brand quality.

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True.

66
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Excessive costs can make consumers wonder why the company is trying so hard which leads to negative effects.

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True.

67
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Wearin is when there is increasing response to an ad with increasing repetition of exposures of the ad.

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True.

68
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Wearout is where there is a decreasing response to an ad with increasing repetition of exposure of the ad.

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True.

69
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In terms of total weight of carryover effects, a one-year ad campaign leads to carryover effects as long as another two years.

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True.

70
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In terms of individual ad exposure in very small time periods such as hours, advertising carryover is short, lasting just about eight hours.

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True.

71
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Wearin occurs faster when exposures are scheduled apart.

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False.

72
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Wearin occurs slower when exposures are scheduled apart.

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True.

73
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Wearout occurs faster for infrequently purchased product categories.

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False.

74
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Wearout occurs slower for infrequently purchased product categories.

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True.

75
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Wearout occurs slower for campaigns that use a variety of creative executions.

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True.

76
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Wearout occurs faster for campaigns that use a variety of creative executions.

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False.

77
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Consumer involvement determines processing (central vs. peripheral root).

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True.

78
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The Third-Person Effect suggests people tend to believe others are more influenced by communications than themselves, which is referred to as third-person perception.

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True.

79
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Self-serving bias or self-enhancement motive is the human tendency to perceive the self in ways that make one look good, or at least better than others.

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True.

80
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The cognitive explanation for third person effects is that people misperceive communication effects due to a lack of information, insufficient processing of information, or false interpretation of information.

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True.

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