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Consumer behaviors test 2
Chapters 6
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Business
Undergraduate 3
04/11/2011

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consumer socialization
Definition
process by which young people acquire skills, knowledge, and attitudes relevant to their function as consumers in the marketplace
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Piaget's Stage of cognitive development
Definition

1. Period of sensorimotor intelligence

2. Period of Preoperational thoughts

3. Period of Concrete operations

4. Period of Formal Operations


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Sensorimotor intelligence
Definition

0-2 years

behavior is primarily motor. Child does not think conceptually, though cognitve development is seen

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Preoperational Thoughts
Definition

3-7 years

development of language and rapid conceptual development

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8-11 years

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 Formal Operations
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 12 to 15 years

Cognitive structures reach their greatest level of development and the child becomes able to apply logic to all of classes of problems

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 Content of Consumer Socialization
Definition

Made up of:

1. consumer skills

2. consumption-related preferences

3. consumption-related attitudes

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Consumer skills
Definition
 capabilities necessary for purchases to occur such as understanding money, budgeting, product evaluation, etc
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 Consumption related preferences
Definition
 the knowledge, attitudes, and values that case people to attach differential evaluations to products, brands and retail outlets
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Consumption related attitudes

Definition
 cognitive and affective orientations toward marketplace stimuli such as advertisements, salespeople, warranties, etc

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The process of Consumer Socialization
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1. instrumental training

2. Modeling

3. Mediation

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Instrumental Training
Definition
a parent or sibiling specifically and directly attempts to bring about certain responses through reasoning or reinforcement
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Modeling
Definition
  • a child learns appropriate or inappropriate consumption behaviors by observing others.
  • occurs without direct instruction from the role model and wihtout conscious thought or effort on the part of the child
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Mediation
Definition
a parent alters a child's initial interpretation of, or response to, a marketing or other stimulus
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James McNeal 5 stage model
Definition
  • describes how children learn to shop
  1. observing
  2. making requests
  3. making selections
  4. making assisted purchases
  5. making independent purchases
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observing

Definition
  • parents take kids to store
  • kid makes sensory contact with the marketplace and begin forming mental images of marketplace objects and symbols
  • ends when kid understands that a visit to the market may produce rewards beyond the stimulation caused by the environment
  • age: 2 months
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making requests

Definition
  • kids begin making requests
  • usually only make request when item is physically present
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making selections
Definition
  • getting an item off the shelf without assistance is the first act of an independent consumer.
  • desire is triggered by an item in his or her immediate presnce
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Making assisted purchases
Definition
  • kids learn by observing that money needs to be given in order to get things from a store
  • learn the value of money
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making independent purchases
Definition
ability to visit store and buy stuff by ourself
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 Characteristics of marketing strategy based on the Household Life Cycle
Definition
Purchase and consumption of many products are driven by the HLC because each stage poses unique problems and opportunities to the household members, and resolving these problems or taking advantage of these opportunities often requires the consumption of products or services
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HLC/occupational category matrix
Definition
  • can be used to segment the market for many products and to develop appropriate marketing strategies for the targeted segments.
  • isolate an acitivity or problem of interest to the firm and research determines the info. used for each cell in the matrix
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Marketing strategy and Family Decision making
Definition

Within each target market, the marketer needs to:

  • find what family memebers are involved at each stage of the decision process
  • determine their motivations and interests
  • develop a marketing strategy that will meet the needs of each participant
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Teen internet mavens as family influences
Definition
  • tech savvy kids who give families info about different products that they learn about online should have greater influence on decision process
  • Internet mavens:
  1. love internet
  2. know about web-based marketplace
  3. more expertise in searching out and finding info on web
  4. desire to help others
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Household
Definition
all the people who occupy a housing unit
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Family household
Definition
at least 2 members related by birth, marriage, or adoption, one of who owns or rents the residence
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Non-family household
Definition
householder living alone or exclusively with other to whom they are not related
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blended family
Definition
family consisiting of a couple, one or both of whom were previously married, their kids, and the kids from the previous marriage
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traditional family
Definition
  • married couple and thier own or adopted children living at home
  • only 51% of households are headed by married couples
  • 67% of households with kids under 18 are headed by married couples
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Inititators
Definition
family member who first recognizes a need or starts the purchase process
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Information Gatherers
Definition
the individual who has expertise and interest in a particular purchase. Different individuals may seek information at different times or on different aspects of the purchase
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Influencers
Definition
The person who influences the alternatives evaluated, the criteria considered, and the final choice
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Decision makers
Definition
individual who makes the final decision
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Purchaser
Definition
person who purchases the product
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user
Definition
the user of the product
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Husband-Dominant
Definition
occured with the purchase of such products as automobiles, liquor, and life insurance
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wife-dominant
Definition
occurs with purchases of household maintenance items, food, and kitchen appliances
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joint decisions
Definition
occur when buying a house,  living room furniture, and vacations
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