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Consumer Behavior
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Psychology, sociology, social psychology, cultural anthropology, economics
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Psychology
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study of the individual
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Sociology
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study of groups
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Social Psychology
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study of individuals within a group
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Cultural Anthropology
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traditions and cultures
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Economics
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how people spend resources and make decisions to maximize satisfaction
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Stage 1: Problem Recognition
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Actual state - where you are at any point in time; desired state - where you want to be
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Stage 2 - Information Search
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Internal vs. External
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Internal Search
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Scanning your memory, previous experience, something frequently used
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External Search
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Actively looking for information;
3 conditions: when past experience or knowledge is insufficient, when risk of making a bad decision is high, when cost of search is low |
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Primary Sources of External Information
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Personal sources, public sources, market-dominated sources
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Stage 3 - Alternative Evaluation
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Assessing value, clarifying the problem
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Clarifying the Problem
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3 Steps: suggesting criteria to use to make decision, brand name/options, what to each of the brand names give value
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Step 4 - Purchase Decision
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Buying value; choices - buy, not buy; unplanned purchases
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Stage 5 - Post-purchase behavior
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Value in consumption or use; compare experience to expectations
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Confirmation
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when experience and expectations meet
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Positive Disconfirmation
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when experience exceeds expectations
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Negative disconfirmation
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when experience fails to exceed expectations
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Cognitive Dissonance
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post-purchase tension or anxiety (buyers regret)
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Ways to alleviate cognitive dissonance
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ask for approval; 1-800 numbers after purchase
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Involvement
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the level of perceived personal importance and/or intrest evoked by a stimulus within a specific situation
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High involvement Purchases
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Expensive, has serious personal consequences, could reflect ones social image
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Impact on Consumer decision Making
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Extensive information search, consideration set large, form attitudes
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Low involvement purchases
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habitual
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Routine Problem Solving
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about 50% of all purchase occasions
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Limited Problem Solving
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about 38% of purchase occasions
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Extended Problem Solving
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12% of purchase situations
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Situation Influences
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Can impact level of involvement;
Purchase task, social surroundings, physical surroundings, time, antecedent states |
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Psychological Influences
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Motivation, personality, perception, perceived risks
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Motivaiton
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drive, desire
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Personality
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refers to a person's consistent behavior or responses to recurring situations
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Perception
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process by which an individual selects and interprets information to create a meaningful picture of the world
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Selective Exposure
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filter exposure to be consistent with beliefs (purchase Honda, notice more Honda's)
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Selective distortion
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take something and change meaning to be consistent with your beliefs
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Selective retention
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Only remember things that are relevant to you
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Sublinal Perception
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Unaware of perceptions going on around you
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Sublinal Perception
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Unaware of perceptions going on around you
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Perceived Risk
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the negative anxieties felt because consumer cannot anticipate outcomes of purchase
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Examples of negative consequences
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Financial, safety, performanc
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Strategies to reduce risk and encourage purchase
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Seals of approval, endorsements, free trials, extensive warranties and guarantees
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Experimental Learning
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Modeling, vicarious learning
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Behavioral Learning
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AUtomatic Responses, stimulus generalization, stimulus discrimination
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Stimulus Generalization
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Geared toward similar responses, allows for brand line extension, allows for copy-cat branding
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Stimulus Discrimination
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When you can tell the difference between two stimuli
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Cognitive Learning
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Involves thinking/problem solving
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Values
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enduring beliefs that a specific mode of conduct is personally or social preferable over another mode
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Beliefs
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Organized patterns of knowledge that an individual holds true about his/her world
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Attitudes
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learned predisposition to respond to an object or class of objects in a consistently favorable or unfavorable way
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AIO
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Activities, intrest, opinions
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Psychographics
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study of lifestyles
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Sociocultural Influences
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Opinion leadership, word of mouth
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Reference Group
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people you look to as a basis for self-appraisal or as a source of personal standards
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Bachelors and young singles
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nondurable items
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Young married without children
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furniture, housewares, gifts
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Young married with children
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home furnishings and purchases driven by children's needs
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Single Parents
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convenience foods, child care, personal care items
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Middle aged couples with children
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leisure products and home improvement items
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older married and unmarried
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vacation trips, gifts for younger relatives, medical services
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