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Consumer Behavior Involves what types of Products?
- Goods
- Services
- People
- Activities
- Ideas
- Places
- Organizations
Consumer Behavior Involves More Than Buying
Acquiring
Using
Disposing
What Affects Consumer Behavior?
Psychological Core
Process of Making Decisions
Consumer’s
Culture
Consumer Behavior Outcomes
Psychological Core
Motivation, ability, and opportunity
Exposure, attention, and perception
Categorizing and comprehending information
Forming and changing attitudes
Forming and retrieving memories
Process of Making Decisions
Problem Recognition
Search for Information
Judgments
Making Decisions
Post-Decision Evaluations
Consumer’s
Culture
External Processes:
Regional and Ethnic Influences
Age, Gender, and Household Influences
Reference Groups
Consumer Behavior Outcomes
Consumer Behaviors Can Symbolize Who We Are

Consumer Behaviors Can Diffuse Throughout a Market
Why Do We Study Consumer Behavior?
Market Segmentation
Targeting & Positioning
Product Decisions
Pricing Decisions
Promotion Decisions
Place Decisions
Who Benefits from the Study of Consumer Behavior?
Marketing Managers
Ethicists and Advocacy Groups
Public Policy Makers and Regulators
Consumers
Marketing
the social and managerial process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and value with others
Motivation
is an inner state of arousal that denotes energy to achieve a goal.
Consumer Motivation and Its Effects
Goal-Relevant Behavior
High-Effort Information Processing and Decision Making
Felt Involvement
Enduring
Situational
Cognitive
Affective
Consumer Motivation and Its Effects
Objects of Involvement
Involvement with Product Categories
Involvement with Brands
Involvement with Ads
Involvement with a Medium
Involvement with Decisions and Behaviors
Specifying the Object of Involvement
What Affects Motivation?
Personal Relevance
Values, Goals, Needs
Perceived Risk
Inconsistency with Attitudes
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
self actualization
egoistic
social
safety
physiological
types of needs
functional
symbolic
hedonic
Types of Perceived
Risk
Performance
Financial
Physical (or Safety)
Social
Psychological
Time
Risk Reduction Strategies
By consumer:
Gathering Information
Safe choices
By Manufacture/retailer:
Money-back guarantees
Warranties
Trial Periods
Consumer Ability: Resources to Act
Product Knowledge and Experience
Cognitive Style
Intelligence,Education, and Age
Money
Consumer Opportunity
Time
Distraction
Amount of Information
Complexity of Information
Repetition of Information
Control of Information
Ability
to identify good investing opportunities
- money: higher wages than before
- education: learn about investing from financial management
workshops, money management shows, seminars, investing newsletters
Opportunity
to take advantage of investing options
- financial freedom: more likely to run household on their own
- availability of services targeted at them
Exposure
The process by which the consumer comes in physical contact with a stimulus
Selective Exposure
Zipping
Zapping
Flipping
How Can We Increase Consumers’ Exposure?
“Roadblocking”--- You can run, but you can’t hide
Repetition
Wide Presence
Attention
The process by which an individual allocate part of his/ her cognitive resources (mental activity) to a stimulus
Characteristics of Attention
DSL Divided Selective Limited
Methods of Enhancing Attention
Personally Relevant
Pleasant
Surprising
Easy to Process
Perception
The registration of stimuli by one of the five senses: vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch
What is categorization?
The process by which consumers label an object and hence know what it is
Implications of Categorization
Positioning & Competition
Elaboration
Evaluations & satisfaction
knowledge content schema
beliefs about and knowledge associated with products
** information linked to some product or concept
Schemas and Associations
Types of Schemas
Created, developed, and changed over time.
knowledge content script
Procedure for doing various things learned over time
E.g., restaurant script:
Make reservation
Travel to restaurant
Await seating
Order drinks
Study menu
Order
Eat
Have dessert and/or coffee
Pay check and leave tip
Means of Categorization
Taxonomic
Goal-derived
Product substitutability
Taxonomic Categorization
An Orderly classification of objects, with similar objects in the same category
Sources of Variation in Knowledge & Categorization Structure
Why Consumers Differ in Their Knowledge
The Cultural System
Level of Expertise
Comprehension
Objective and Subjective Comprehension
Objective Comprehension:
- Extent to which the consumer has learned the facts stated in a message
Subjective Comprehension:
- Meanings generated by consumers from communication
Chapter 6
attitude formation and change: high consumer effort
What are Attitudes?
A relatively global and enduring evaluation of an object, issue, person, or action
The Characteristics of Attitudes
Favorability
Attitude Accessibility
Attitude Confidence/ strength
Attitude Persistence
Attitude Resistance
Cognitive V. Affective
Thoughts V. Feelings
The Cognitive Foundations of Attitudes
The Cognitive Response Model
Counterarguments (CAs)
Support Arguments (SAs)
Source Derogations (SDs)
The Cognitive Foundations of Attitudes
Expectancy-Value Models
Theory of Reasoned Action (TORA)
(influences)
How Affectively Based Attitudes Are Influenced
The Source
Attractiveness

The Message
Emotional Appeals
Fear Appeals
Celebrity Problems
Overexposure
When celebrity endorses too many products (reduces effectiveness)
Celebrity Behavior
Mike Tyson, Michael Jackson
When Do Attitudes Predict Behavior?
Mediating Factors:
Level of Involvement/Elaboration
Knowledge and Experience
Accessibility of Attitudes
Attitude Confidence
Attitude-Behavior Relationship over Time
Specificity of Attitudes
Situational Factors
Normative Factors
Personality Variables
Chapter 7
attitudes based on low consumer effort
High-Effort Versus Low-Effort Routes to Persuasion
Peripheral Route to Persuasion
Peripheral Cues
(super market)
Cognitive Bases of Attitudes When Consumer Effort Is Low
Simple Inferences
Heuristics
Frequency Heuristic
Truth Effect
How Cognitive Attitudes Are Influenced
Communication Source
The Message
Category- and Schema-Consistent Information
Many Message Arguments
Simple Messages
Involving Messages
Message Context and Repetition
Incidental Learning
Affective Bases of Attitudes When Consumer Effort Is Low
(1) The Mere Exposure Effect
Wearout
(2) Classical Conditioning
(3) Attitude Toward the Ad (Aad)
Dual-Mediation Hypothesis
(4) Mood
How Affective Attitudes Are Influenced
Communication Source
(A) Attractive Sources
(B) Likable Sources
(C) Celebrity Sources
How Affective Attitudes Are Influences
The Message
Pleasant Pictures
Music
Humor
Emotional Content
e.g., Dramas
Message Context