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Chapter 6: Consumer Decision Making

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Learning Outcomes
LO1 Explain why marketing managers should understand consumer behavior Analyze the components of the consumer decisionmaking process Explain the consumers postpurchase evaluation process

LO2

LO3

LO4

Identify the types of consumer buying decisions and discuss the significance of consumer involvement
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Learning Outcomes
LO5 Identify and understand the cultural factors that affect consumer buying decisions Identify and understand the social factors that affect consumer buying decisions Identify and understand the individual factors that affect consumer buying decisions Identify and understand the psychological factors that affect consumer buying decisions

LO6 LO7

LO8

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The Importance of Understanding Consumer Behavior

Explain why marketing managers should understand consumer behavior.

LO1

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Consumer Behavior

Processes a consumer uses to make purchase decisions, as well as to use and dispose of purchased goods or services, also includes factors that influence purchase decisions and the product use.

LO1

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Understanding Consumer Behavior

consumers make purchase decisions Consumer behavior

= HOW
consumers use and dispose of product

LO1

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The Consumer Decision-Making Process

Analyze the components of the consumer decision-making process.

LO2

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Consumer Decision-Making Process


Need Recognition
Information Search
Cultural, Social, Individual and Psychological Factors affect all steps

Evaluation of Alternatives Purchase Postpurchase Behavior

LO2

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Need Recognition

Marketing helps consumers recognize an imbalance between present status and preferred state.

LO2

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Recognition of Unfulfilled Wants


When a current product isnt performing properly When the consumer is running out of a product When another product seems superior to the one currently used

LO2

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Information Search
Internal Information Search
Recall information in memory

External Information search


Seek information in outside environment
Nonmarketing controlled Marketing controlled

LO2

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External Information Searches


Need Less Information
Less Risk More knowledge More product experience Low level of interest Confidence in decision

Need More Information


More Risk Less knowledge Less product experience High level of interest Lack of confidence

LO2

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Evaluation of Alternatives and Purchase


Evoked Set
Analyze product attributes

Use cutoff criteria

Rank attributes by importance

Purchase!
LO2
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Purchase

Determines which attributes are most important in influencing a consumers choice

LO2

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Review Learning Outcome


Consumer Decision-Making Process

INDIVIDUAL CULTURAL SOCIAL

Need 1 Recognition

Information Search

Evaluate 3 Alternatives

Purchase

PSYCHOLOGICAL

LO2

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Postpurchase Behavior

Explain the consumers postpurchase evaluation process.

LO3

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Postpurchase Behavior
Consumers can reduce cognitive dissonance by:
Seeking information that reinforces positive ideas about the purchase
Avoiding information that contradicts the purchase decision

Revoking the original decision by returning the product Marketers can minimize through:
Effective Communication Follow-up Guarantees Warranties Service during and after the sale

LO3

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Review Learning Outcome


Consumer postpurchase evaluation process
To Reduce Dissonance
Cognitive Dissonance

Consumer can:
Justify decision Seek new information Avoid contradictory information

Satisfied Customer

Return product

Marketer can:
Send postpurchase thank you or letter Display product superiority in ads Offer guarantees

LO3

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Consumer Buying Decisions and Consumer Involvement

Identify the types of consumer buying

decisions and discuss the


significance of consumer involvement.

LO4

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Consumer Buying Decisions and Consumer Involvement

Routine Response Behavior

Limited Decision Making

Extensive Decision Making

Less Involvement

More Involvement

LO4

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Continuum of Consumer Buying Decisions

LO4

Factors Determining the Level of Consumer Involvement


Previous Experience

Interest Perceived Risk of Negative Consequences Situation

Social Visibility

LO4

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Marketing Implications of Involvement

High-involvement purchases require:

Extensive and informative promotion to target market

Low-involvement purchases require:

In-store promotion, eye-catching package design, and good displays. Coupons, cents-off, 2-for-1 offers
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LO4

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Factors Influencing Buying Decisions

Cultural Factors

Social Factors

Individual Factors

Psychological Factors

CONSUMER DECISIONMAKING PROCESS

BUY / DONT BUY

LO4

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Review Learning Outcome


Consumer Buying Decisions and Consumer Involvement
Previous experience Interest Perceived risk of negative consequences Situation Social visibility

Extensive Limited Routine

LO4

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Cultural Influences on Consumer Buying Decisions

Identify and understand the cultural factors that affect consumer buying decisions.

LO5

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Components of Culture
Values Language Myths Customs Rituals Laws Material artifacts

LO5

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Culture is. . .
Pervasive Functional Learned Dynamic

LO5

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Values
1. 2. 3. The most defining element of a culture is its values. People with similar value systems tend to react alike to prices and other marketing-related inducements. Values also correspond to consumption patterns. Success Materialism Freedom LO5 Progress Youth

Capitalism

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Social Class

A group of people in a society who are considered nearly equal in status or community esteem, who regularly socialize among themselves both formally and informally, and who share behavioral norms.

LO5

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Social Class Measurements


Occupation

Income

Education

Wealth

Other Variables LO5


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Review Learning Outcome


Cultural Factors

LO5

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Social Influences on Consumer Buying Decisions

Identify and understand

the social factors that affect


consumer buying decisions.

LO6

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Social Influences
Reference Groups

Opinion Leaders

Family Members
LO6
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Reference Groups
Primary

Direct
Secondary

Reference Groups
Aspirational

Indirect
Nonaspirational

LO6

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Influences of Reference Groups


1. They serve as information sources and influence perceptions. 2. They affect an individuals aspiration levels. 3. Their norms either constrain or stimulate consumer behavior.

LO6

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Opinion Leaders
Marketers are looking to Web logs, or blogs, to find opinion leaders
Teenagers Movie stars Sports figures Celebrities

LO6

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Family
Purchase Process Roles in the Family
Initiators
Influencers Decision Makers Purchasers Consumers
LO6
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Relationships among Purchasers and Consumers in the Family

LO6

Review Learning Outcome


Social Factors
Direct
Reference Groups
Primary Secondary

Indirect
Aspirational Nonaspirational

Opinion Leaders

People you know

Celebrities

Socialization Process
Family
Initiators Decision Makers Consumers Influencers Purchasers

LO6

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Individual Influences on Consumer Buying Decisions

Identify and understand the individual factors that affect consumer buying decisions.

LO7

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Review Learning Outcome


Individual Influences on Consumer Buying Decisions

Gender

Age Life Cycle

Personality Self-Concept Lifestyle

LO7

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Psychological Influences on Consumer Buying Decisions

Identify and understand the psychological factors that affect consumer buying decisions.

LO8

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Psychological Influences
Perception

Motivation

Learning

Beliefs & Attitudes

LO8

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Perception
Selective Exposure Consumer notices certain stimuli and ignores others Consumer changes or distorts information that conflicts with feelings or beliefs Consumer remembers only that information that supports personal beliefs

Selective Distortion

Selective Retention

LO8

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Marketing Implications of Perception


Important attributes

Price
Brand names Quality and reliability Threshold level of perception Product or repositioning changes Foreign consumer perception Subliminal perception

LO8

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Maslows Hierarchy of Needs

LO8

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Types of Learning
Experiential An experience changes behavior

Conceptual

Not learned through direct experience

LO8

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Stimulus Generation and Discrimination


Stimulus Generalization
A form of learning that occurs when one response is extended to a second stimulus similar to the first.

Stimulus Discrimination

A learned ability to differentiate among similar products.

LO8

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Beliefs and Attitudes


An organized pattern of knowledge that an individual holds as true about his or her world.

Belief

Attitude

A learned tendency to respond consistently toward a given object.

LO8

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Changing Attitudes
Change beliefs about the brands attributes Change the relative importance of these beliefs Add new beliefs

LO8

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Review Learning Outcome


Psychological Factors
Selective Exposure
Perception
Selective Retention Selective Exposure

Needs
Motivation
Psychological Safety Social Esteem SelfActualization

Learning

Stimulus Generalization

Stimulus Discrimination

Beliefs & Attitudes

Changing Beliefs about Attributes

Changing Importance of Beliefs

Adding New Beliefs

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