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Consumer Behaviour
What is a chav? L01
What is the difference between achieved and ascribed status? L01
What is social class? Is it different from income, and if so how? L01
What is a pecking order? L01
How does consumer confidence influence consumer behavior? L01
Define discretionary income. L01
How have women contributed to the overall rise in income in our society? L01
Do you plan to buy a car in the next year? L01
Is now a good time or a bad time for people to buy major household items, such as furniture or a refrigerator? L01
Will you be better off or worse off a year from now? L01
Would you say that you and your family are better off or worse off financially than a year ago? L01
Why does a person s desire to make a statement about his social class, or the class to which he hopes to belong, influence the products he likes and dislikes? L01
Why do both personal and social conditions influence how we spend our money?L01
How do current trends in the family life cycle affect the marketing of cell phones to children? L01
When it comes to cell phones for kids, who is the customer? Discuss the dynamics of the decision to buy a cell phone for a young child. L01
Consider three important changes in the modern family structure. For each, find an example of a marketer who seems to be conscious of this change in its product communications, retailing innovations,
Select a product category, and using the life-cycle stages the chapter describes, list the variables likely to affect a purchase decision for the product by consumers in each stage of the cycle. L01
Observe the interactions between parents and children in the cereal section of a local grocery store (remember to bring earplugs). Prepare a report on the number of children who expressed
Pick three married couples and ask each husband and wife to list the names of all cousins, second cousins, and so on for both sides of the family. Based on the results, what can you conclude about
Collect ads for three different product categories that target families. Find another set of ads for different brands of the same items that dont feature families.Prepare a report comparing the
Arrange to interview two married couples, one younger and one older. Prepare a response form that lists five product categories groceries, furniture, appliances, vacations, and automobiles and ask
Stanford University Medical Center prohibits its physicians from accepting even small gifts such as pens and mugs from pharmaceutical sales representatives under a new policy it hopes will limit
We can think of college students who live away from home as having a substitute family. Whether you live with your parents, with a spouse, or with other students, how are decisions made in your
Industrial purchase decisions are totally rational.Aesthetic or subjective factors dont and shouldnt play a role in this process. Do you agree? L01
When they identify and target newly divorced couples, do you think marketers exploit these couples situations? Are there instances in which you think marketers may actually be helpful to them?
For each of the following five product categories groceries, automobiles, vacations, furniture, and appliances describe the ways in which you believe having children or not affects a married couples
Marketers have been criticized when they donate products and services to educational institutions in exchange for free promotion. Is this a fair exchange, in your opinion, or should corporations be
Do you think market research should be performed with children? Give the reasons for your answer. L01
The chapter cites parents worries about the amount of time their kids spend online. Is this just old-fashioned concern that ignores the benefits kids get when they explore cyberspace? L01
The Defense Department shut down a controversial research program following a public outcry. Its intent was to create a prediction market to forecast terrorist activities. Was the decision to
Do marketers rob kids of their childhood? L01
Discuss the pros and cons of the voluntarily childless movement. Are followers of this philosophy selfish? L01
Is the family unit dead? L01
The promotional products industry thrives on corporate clients that order $19 billion per year of T-shirts, mugs, pens, and other branded items in order to keep their organizations at the forefront
Why is it difficult to conduct marketing research with children? L01
Discuss stages of cognitive development and how these relate to the comprehension of marketing messages. L01
What is consumer socialization? Who are some important players in this process? How do toys contribute? L01
What are three reasons why children are an important segment to marketers? L01
Describe a heuristic a couple might use when they make a decision, and provide an example of it. L01
What is a kin-network system? L01
What factors help to determine if decisions will be made jointly or by one spouse or the other? L01
What are some differences between traditional and modern couples in terms of how they allocate household responsibilities? L01
What is the difference between an autonomic and a syncretic decision? L01
What is the difference between a consensual and an accommodative purchase decision? What are some factors that help to determine how much conflict the family will experience when it makes a decision?
List some variables we must consider when we try to understand different stages in the FLC. L01
What is the FLC, and why is it important to marketers? L01
What are boomerang kids? L01
How do we calculate a nations fertility rate? What fertility rate is required to ensure that population size does not decline? L01
What is a nuclear family, and how is it different from an extended family? L01
List at least three roles employees play in the organizational decision-making process. L01
What are some of the ways organizational decisions differ from individual consumer decisions? How are they similar? L01
Summarize the buyclass model of purchasing. How do decisions differ within each class? L01
What is a prediction market? L01
What are some factors that influence how an organizational buyer evaluates a purchase decision? L01
The degree to which he is familiar with the purchase. L01
The seriousness with which he must consider all possible alternatives. L01
The level of information he must gather before he makes a decision. L01
How do children learn over time what and how to consume? L01
How do members of a family unit play different roles and have different amounts of influence when the family makes purchase decisions? L01
How do many important demographic dimensions of a population relate to family and household structure? L01
Why are our traditional notions about families outdated? L01
Why do companies as well as individuals make purchase decisions? L01
Why do marketers often need to understand consumers behavior rather than consumer behavior? L01
Refer to your responses to question 1, What kind of opportunities does the existence of the Buffett community present to marketers? Develop a list of specific marketing and promotional tactics. L01
How can we consider Jimmy Buffett fans as members of a reference group? A brand community? A consumer tribe? L01
Trace a referral pattern for a service provider such as a hair stylist; track how clients came to choose him or her.See if you can identify opinion leaders who are responsible for referring several
See if you can demonstrate the risky shift. Get a group of friends together and ask each to privately rate the likelihood on a scale from 1 to 7 that they would try a controversial new product (e.g.,
Conduct a sociometric analysis within your dormitory or neighborhood. For a product category such as music or cars, ask each individual to identify other individuals with whom they share information.
Identify fashion opinion leaders on your campus. Do they fit the profile the chapter describes? L01
Identify a set of avoidance groups for your peers. Can you identify any consumption decisions that you and your friends make with these groups in mind? L01
The power of unspoken social norms often becomes obvious only when we violate them. To witness this result firsthand, try one of the following: Stand facing the back wall in an elevator, serve
Mobile social networking is the next frontier in technology as companies race to adapt platforms like Facebook to our cell phones. Marketers are not far behind, especially because there are 3.3
The high-profile stunt to publicize Aqua Teen Hunger Force created a massive public disruption. When does a guerrilla marketing tactic go too far or is anything fair game in the heated competition to
Are home shopping parties that put pressure on friends and neighbors to buy merchandise ethical? L01
The strategy of viral marketing gets customers to sell a product to other customers on behalf of the company.That often means convincing your friends to climb on the bandwagon, and sometimes you get
The adoption of a certain brand of shoe or apparel by athletes can be a powerful influence on students and other fans. Should high school and college coaches be paid to determine what brand of
Do you agree that deindividuation encourages binge drinking on campus? What can or should a college do to discourage this behavior? L01
The Word-of-Mouth Marketing Association announced a set of rules and guidelines for word-of-mouth advertising. The trade group maintains that marketers must make sure that people talking up products
The average Internet user in the United States spends 3 hours a day online, with much of that time devoted to work and more than half of it to communications.Researchers report that the Internet has
Although social networking is red-hot, could its days be numbered? Many people have concerns about privacy issues. Others feel platforms like Facebook are too overwhelming. As one media executive
What are sociometric techniques? Under what conditions does it make sense to use them? L01
How can marketers use opinion leaders to help them promote their products or services? L01
What is the difference between a market maven and a surrogate consumer? L01
What is the relationship between an opinion leader and an opinion seeker? L01
Is there such a thing as a generalized opinion leader?Why or why not? L01
What is an opinion leader? Give three reasons why they are powerful influences on consumers opinions. What are some characteristics of opinion leaders? L01
What is viral marketing? Guerrilla marketing? Give an example of each. L01
Describe some ways marketers use the Internet to encourage positive WOM.
Which is more powerful: positive or negative word of mouth? L01
What is word of mouth, and how can it be more powerful than advertising? L01
What is the difference between independence and anticonformity? L01
What is social comparison? To what type of person do we usually choose to compare ourselves? L01
How does the principle of least interest relate to your success in a romantic relationship? L01
Define conformity and give an example of it. Name three reasons why people conform. L01
What is the difference between normative and informational social influence? L01
What is the risky shift, and how does it relate to shopping with friends? L01
Define deindividuation and give an example of this effect. L01
Name one factor that makes it more likely a person will become part of a consumer s membership reference group. L01
Describe the difference between a membership and an aspirational reference group and give an example of each kind. L01
What is a brand community, and why is it of interest to marketers? L01
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