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Marketing Research
1st Test for Marketing Research
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Marketing
Undergraduate 4
09/18/2010

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Purpose
Definition
Why the data was collected?
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Timeliness
Definition
Are data out of date / when were the data collected?
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Accuracy
Definition
Does the data appear accurate and complete?
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Consistency
Definition
Does the data appear consistent with other sources?
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Credibility
Definition
Who collected and interpreted the data?
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Methodology
Definition
How was the data collected?
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Bias
Definition
Does the data appear to be interpreted accurately?
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Programatic Research
Definition
Research conducted to develop marketing options through market segmentation, market opportunity analyses, or consumer attitudes and predict usage studies Example: Yearly analyses of scanner data
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Selective Research
Definition
Research used to test decision alternatives (done BEFORE the decision or action, to select/decide between alternatives) Example: Ad copy testing
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Evaluative Research
Definition
Research done to assess program performance (done AFTER the decision or action) Example: Rebate usage evaluation
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The Milgram Experiment is which one of the respondent's rights?
Definition
Right to Safety
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Gatekeeper technology is.....
Definition
Technology designed to KEEP PEOPLE OUT! Example: Do Not Call List or Spam Filters
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The most difficult of the research process is what?
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Determining the research problem!
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Management Problems are what....
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Action Driven
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Research Problems are what....?
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Information Driven
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SMART stands for what?
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Specific
Measurable
Aggressive
Realistic
Time-Sensitive
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TRUE or FALSE: Exploratory Studies are used to test theories.
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FALSE!
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Descriptive Studies are....
Definition
Research that answers the "what, where, when, and how" questions.
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What is one method of truly being capable of proving causality?
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Experiments
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Examining measurement issues and scales includes answering questions about......what?
Definition
Levels of information, reliability, and validity
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The first step of any research project is to.....
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Conduct a literature review
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What is one reason for conducting a literature review?
Definition
Uncover existing studies
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What is the Situation Analysis of a Literature Review?
Definition
Process of gathering information on the internal and external environments to assess the firm's current strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and to guide its goals and objectives
Term
Four C's of the Situation Analysis are?
Definition
Company, Customers, Competitors, and CLIMATE!
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What does SWOT stand for in a Situational Analysis of a Literature Report?
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Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
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TRUE or FALSE: The internet and electronic databases have decreased the availability of literature.
Definition
FALSE
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The downfall to the increase of literature is that it could be......
Definition
False, or harder to sort through.
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What does Conceptualization mean?
Definition
Development of a model that shows variables and hypothesized relationships between variables
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TRUE or FALSE: • A hypothesis is a guess or a prediction about the relationship between two or more variables
Definition
TRUE
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What is Thick Description?
Definition
Ethnographic research approach that contextualizes behavior within a culture.
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What are the steps (in sequence) of analysis?
Definition
Data Reduction
Data Display
Conclusions / Verifications
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Categorization is what?
Definition
Placing portions of transcripts into smaller groups based on their content.
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What are codes?
Definition
Labels or numbers used to track categories in a qualitative study.
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What is a code sheet?
Definition
Document that lists the different themes or categories for a particular study.
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What is Abstraction?
Definition
Collapsing some categories or themes into a larger category or higher order conceptual construct.
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What is Tabulation?
Definition
Counting of Frequencies.
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What's the difference between single and paired comments for Tabulation?
Definition
Single = # of complaints, # of complaints
Paired = # of complaints with suggestions, # of complaints with comparisons
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Data display may take the form of what 4 things?
Definition
Diagrams, tables, matrices, maps
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What's a Peer Review?
Definition
process in which external qualitative methodology or topic area specialists are asked to review the research analysis.
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What is a Cross-Researcher Reliability?
Definition
Degree of similarity in the coding of the same data by different researchers
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What does selectivity lead to in terms of credibility?
Definition
Overconfidence in some data
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What's the goal of qualitative research?
Definition
To generate ideas.
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What is the magnitude of phenomena?
Definition
Level of Satisfaction
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The main reason people think Qualitative Research isn't real is because......
Definition
Of small sample sizes
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