Week 7 Flashcards
What is involvement?
Persons perceived relevance of an object based on their needs, values and interests
What are components of invovelemt?
Consequences, factors and potential risks
What are high involvement decisions
- Decisions that have important consequences that will affect our lives
- There’s a criteria applied and active process of searching, learning and evaluating (Problem solving)
What are low involvement decisions
- Decisions that don’t have important consequences
- Choice is made without having a criteria (Habitual decision making)
Why are low and high involvement decisions significant to marketers
- how consumers perceive brands
- how they respond to advertising
- how they approach the decision process
- how interested they are in spending time and effort looking for information
- deliberating alternatives and choosing which decision rule they will use to make a choice
What is active learning
Involves purposeful, motivated acquisition of knowledge. It is nature exciting and engaging
How is active learning applied in consumer behavior?
Extensive information search formatting a purchase
High involvement
Learning more about the brands we are considering to buy from
What is passive learning?
Effortless acquisition of knowledge unrelated to goals
Who was passive learning developed by?
Krugman and Hartley
How did Krugman and Hartley come up with passive learning?
They observed how people watched tv and which ads that were recalled
What was the result of Krugman and Hartley’s study?
- Awareness of the brand = product behavior of purchasing
- Consumers purchase and try the brand = attitudes toward it would be formed
What is evoked set
Refers to all brand consumers are aware that might meet their needs
Consideration set
Refers to things consumers might actually consider buying or a consumer may have already have a well formed intention of what to buy
What is the routine decision process in a high involvement situation
- Problem recognition
- Intention
- Choice
- Outcome/evaluation
What are the process of low involvement when there’s a few differences among brands?
- Inertia
- Spurious (superficial loyalty)
- Random Choice
What are the process of high involvement when there’s a few differences among brands?
- Complex decision making
- Dissonance reduction
What are the process of low involvement in significant difference among brands?
- Variety
- Random Choice
- Experiment
What are the process of high involvement in significant difference among brands?
Complex decision making or brand loyalty
What is post purchase dissonance?
Engaging in extended search and looking for reassurance after purchase to see if they made the right choice
What are the different types of involvement?
- Product involvement
- Message response involvement
- Enduring involvement
- Ego involvement
What is product involvement?
Involvement surrounding personal relevance of the product based on needs, values or interest
What is message response involvement?
Involvement that reflects the consumers interest in marketing communications
What is enduring involvement?
The pre existing relationship between an individual and the object of concern
What is ego involvement?
Consumers perceptions of products or brands that are relevant to their self concept and ego which defines their identity
What is foxalls research?
- Involvement is a relationship between the product and consumers
- Long term interest in a product may affect the level of involvement and these may change depending the situation
- Situational involvement also depends on a particular event
How do you increase consumer engagement?
- Link the brand to hedonic needs
- Use distinctive or novel ways of communicating about the product
- Use celebrities
- Tell a story: Emotional glue and make an audience care
- Build a relationship: Building a knowledge of what brands stand for
- Get the consumer to participate: Use social media to engage consumers by involving them with their marketing communications
What does the state of flow describe?
Involvement that is characterized by enjoyment, focused attention, intrinsic interest, sense of being in control and loss of self consciousness
Who pioneered the study of flow?
Psychologist Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi
What did Psychologist Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi see with flow?
That flow is one of the most rewarding experiences in life that adds to a persons overall well being and suggests that one should seek opportunities to punctuate life with activities that are intrinsically rewarding
What is the dark side of flow?
Has addictive behaviors, obsessions, problematic use, impulsiveness
What are the steps in decision making process?
- Problem recognition
- Information search
- Alternative evaluation
- Choice
- Outcomes of choice
What is problem recognition?
A realization that is a difference exist between a consumers actual state and ideal state
When can problem recognition occur?
High involvement and low involvement
What is a need recognition?
recognizing you need something to fix your situation
What is opportunity recognition?
Is a situation where a consumers actual state stays the same and the ideal state is different
What is information search?
Where we identify appropriate information to fix our choices but it is not purely functional
What is pre purchase search?
Researching complex information to make the decision
What is ongoing search?
This occurs independently of a specific immediate purchasing problem
Who identified the 5 classes of information?
Vogt and Fesenmaier
What are the five classes of information need?
- Functional
- Hedonic
- Sign
- Innovation
- Aesthetic
What are functional needs?
Acquisition of knowledge from ones own experiences, those of others, and through stimuli and reduce risk. These act as a way of educating a consumer about the products utility, attributes and applications
What are hedonic needs?
Are elements of pleasurable experiences that may occur during decision making
What are signs needs?
What are products saying ab out us and information passed to signify your social positions
What are innovation needs?
This is something that is new or different to a consumers
What are aesthetic needs?
Are information viewed as a stimulus to visual thinking to imagining the product and how it looks like in your life
What are internal search?
Resources that have previous experience s stored in memory to draw upon