Marketing Unit 3 Test Flashcards

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What is consumer behavior?

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A process through which buyers make decisions (based on needs and wants)

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What two factors affect consumer behavior?

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Interpersonal and personal

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3
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What two subjects do marketers borrow from to better understand consumer behavior?

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Psychology and sociology

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What are external (interpersonal) determinants of consumer behavior?

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Cultural, social, family

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What are internal/personal determinants of consumer behavior?

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needs & motives, perception, attitudes, learning, and self concept

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What are cultural influences

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Values, beliefs, preferences, and tastes handed down from one generation to the next.

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What can influence your culture?

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Where you are born and language

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What are core values in the U.S. culture?

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Worth ethic and desire for accumulation of wealth
Importance of individualism, freedom, youth, health, physical activity, humanitarianism, and efficiency

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What new values are consumers in the United States adopting?

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Communicating with anyone, anywhere, and anytime using technology

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10
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True or false successful strategies in one country always extend to another

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False

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What are subcultures

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Groups within a culture that have their own modes of behavior

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In what ways can subcultures differentiate from one another?

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ethnicity, nationality, age, rural vs. urban location, religion, and geographic distribution

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13
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What are the three biggest minorities in the United States?

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Hispanic, African Americans, and Asian American consumers

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What is the order of the minority groups from largest to smallest

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Hispanic, African Americans, and Asian American

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What is acculturation?

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The degree to which newcomers adopted U.S. culture

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What does homogeneous mean?

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Not of the same culture

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17
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What homogeneous minority group in the United States has the highest disposable income and has family sizes that tend to be larger?

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Hispanics

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Which minority group make more shopping trips than any other demographic and consume a lot of media, purchase technology, and products

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African Americans

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Which minority group is the smallest and many marketers are still trying to understand?

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Asian Americans

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20
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What two things affect social influences drastically?

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Status and roles

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What is status?

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Relative position of any member in a group

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What are roles?

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Behaviors that members of a group expect of individuals in a certain position of that group

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What is the Asch Phenomenon?

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A theory created by S.E. Asch that individuals conform to majority rule, even if the majority rule goes against their beliefs

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What are reference groups?

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People or institutions whose opinions are valued and to whom a person looks to for guidance

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25
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What two conditions does the affect of reference groups depend on?

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The product must be conspicuous (something not everyone owns) and the product must be seen and identifiable

26
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What are social classes determined by?

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The income and occupation of both parents

27
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What are the social classes from highest to lowest?

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  1. Upper-upper
    2.Lower-upper
    3.Upper-middle
    4.Lower-middle
    5.Working class
    6.Lower class
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How do purchasing trends flow through the social classes?

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Trends start in the upper-upper class and then go down the different social classes

29
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What are trendsetters?

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Trendsetters purchase new products before others and influence others purchases

30
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What are opinion leaders?

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Have knowledge and interest in the product

31
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How does information about goods and services reach different people?

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Goes from mass media to opinion leaders to consumers

32
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What are the four main types of roles in families?

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Autonomic role-Partners independently make equal amount of decisions
Husband-dominant role- Husband makes most of the purchasing decisions
Wife-dominant role- wife makes most of the purchasing decisions
Syncretic role- buying decisions made together

33
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Which generation is subculture dominant, digital reality shapes their behavior, place importance on efficiencey

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Generation Z

34
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What generation makes 60% of their purchases online, are very involved buyers, are traditional online buyers

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Millennials

35
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When was Gen Z born?

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1996-2010

36
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When were millenials born?

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1977-1995

37
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What generation values loyalty/rewards programs and stick to the brands they like

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Gen X

38
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When were Gen Xers born

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1965-1976

39
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What generation use search engines and computers a lot but do not often use phones

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Baby boomers

40
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When were baby boomers born

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1946-1964

41
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What generation was born before world war II and are marketed to using print ads

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The silent generation

42
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What is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?

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Developed by psychologist, Abraham H. Maslow it identifies five levels of human needs and you need to fulfill the lower needs before the higher ones

43
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What are the five levels of needs most basic to most advanced

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Psychological needs, safety and security, love and belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization

44
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What are the basic needs

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Physiological needs, safety and security

45
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What are the phychological needs

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Love and belonging, esteem needs

46
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What is the self-fullfillment need

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self actualization

47
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What is a perceptual screen?

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A subconscious way that humans ignore advertisements

48
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How do marketers break the perceptual screen?

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Use various combinations of all 5 senses, marketers use bright colors, social media, and size

49
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What is subliminal perception?

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Subconscious receipt of incoming information used to break perceptual screen

50
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What is a need?

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An imbalance between a consumers actual and desired state

51
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What is a motive?

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Inner state that directs a person towards the goal of satisfying a need

52
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What is an attitude?

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Persons enduring favourable or unfavourable evaluations, emotions, actions, or tendencies towards an object or idea

53
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What are the three attitude components?

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Cognitive- What do I know about this product?
Affective- How do I feel about this product?
Behavioral- Tendencies to act in a certain manner (what do I do with this)

54
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What are the four steps of the learning process?

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  1. Drive (motivation)
  2. Cue (an object in the environment that affects the consumers response)
    3.Response (an individuals reaction to a set of drives and cues)
    4.Reinforcement (the reduction in drive that creates a satisfied response and creates a bond between the drive and purchasing of a product)
55
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How do marketers apply the learning process to marketing decisions

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They apply (shaping) a series of rewards and reinforcements to make consumers regular buyers
Examples: Costco (free samples) and email list (give them your email for a coupon)

56
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What are your four views of yourself?

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real self: an objective view of who you are
self-image: who you think you are
looking-glass self: how you think others see you
ideal self: who you want to be

57
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What are the two types of buying decisions?

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High involvement-buying a home
low involvement- buying a candy bar

58
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What are the five steps of the consumer decision process?

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  1. Problem or opportunity
    2.Search
  2. Evoked set (evaluation of alternatives)
    4.Purchase decision
    5.Post purchase evaluation
59
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What is cognitive dissonance

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Imbalance among knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes that occurs after an action or a decision, such as a purchase

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What are three reasons that cognitive dissonance may increase?

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  1. The rejected alternatives have desirable features that the chosen product does not provide
    2.The dollar value of the purchased item
  2. The purchase decision has a major impact on the buyer (food poisoning, etc.)
61
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How do marketers reduce cognitive dissodence?

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By focusing on the benefits of the produuct