Marketing Unit 3 Test Flashcards
What is consumer behavior?
A process through which buyers make decisions (based on needs and wants)
What two factors affect consumer behavior?
Interpersonal and personal
What two subjects do marketers borrow from to better understand consumer behavior?
Psychology and sociology
What are external (interpersonal) determinants of consumer behavior?
Cultural, social, family
What are internal/personal determinants of consumer behavior?
needs & motives, perception, attitudes, learning, and self concept
What are cultural influences
Values, beliefs, preferences, and tastes handed down from one generation to the next.
What can influence your culture?
Where you are born and language
What are core values in the U.S. culture?
Worth ethic and desire for accumulation of wealth
Importance of individualism, freedom, youth, health, physical activity, humanitarianism, and efficiency
What new values are consumers in the United States adopting?
Communicating with anyone, anywhere, and anytime using technology
True or false successful strategies in one country always extend to another
False
What are subcultures
Groups within a culture that have their own modes of behavior
In what ways can subcultures differentiate from one another?
ethnicity, nationality, age, rural vs. urban location, religion, and geographic distribution
What are the three biggest minorities in the United States?
Hispanic, African Americans, and Asian American consumers
What is the order of the minority groups from largest to smallest
Hispanic, African Americans, and Asian American
What is acculturation?
The degree to which newcomers adopted U.S. culture
What does homogeneous mean?
Not of the same culture
What homogeneous minority group in the United States has the highest disposable income and has family sizes that tend to be larger?
Hispanics
Which minority group make more shopping trips than any other demographic and consume a lot of media, purchase technology, and products
African Americans
Which minority group is the smallest and many marketers are still trying to understand?
Asian Americans
What two things affect social influences drastically?
Status and roles
What is status?
Relative position of any member in a group
What are roles?
Behaviors that members of a group expect of individuals in a certain position of that group
What is the Asch Phenomenon?
A theory created by S.E. Asch that individuals conform to majority rule, even if the majority rule goes against their beliefs
What are reference groups?
People or institutions whose opinions are valued and to whom a person looks to for guidance