L6a Analyzing Consumer Markets
L6a Analyzing Consumer Markets
L6a Analyzing Consumer Markets
1- Cultural factors
– Culture
– Subcultures
– Social classes
What Influences Consumer Behavior?
2-Social factors
Reference groups
Cliques
Family
• Membership groups
– Primary vs. secondary
• Aspirational groups
• Dissociative groups
• Opinion leader
Family
• Family of orientation vs. family of procreation
What Influences Consumer Behavior?
3-Personal factors
– Age/stage in life cycle
– Occupation and
economic
circumstances
– Personality and self-
concept
– Lifestyle and values
Key Psychological Processes
(Psychological Factors)
Motivation
Memory Perception
Emotions Learning
Model Of Consumer Behavior
Key Psychological Processes
• Motivation
– A need becomes a motive when it is aroused
to a sufficient level of intensity to drive us to
act
Motivation
Maslow’s Herzberg’s
Freud’s Hierarchy Two-Factor
Theory of Needs Theory
Selective attention
Selective distortion
Selective retention
Subliminal perception
Key Psychological Processes
• Learning
– Induces changes in our behavior arising from
experience
– Drive and cues
– Generalization and discrimination
Key Psychological Processes
• Emotions
– Many different
kinds of emotions
can be linked to
brands
Key Psychological Processes
• Memory
– Short-term vs. long-term memory
– Associative network memory model
– Brand associations
– Memory encoding
– Memory retrieval
The Buying Decision Process
✓ Personal sources
✓ Commercial sources
✓ Public sources
✓ Experiential sources
Sets Involved In Decision Making
The Buying Decision Process
• Evaluation of alternatives
– Expectancy-value model
The Buying Decision Process
• Purchase decision
– Compensatory vs. noncompensatory models
Conjunctive heuristic
Lexicographic heuristic
Elimination-by-aspects heuristic
Intervening factors
Types of Perceived Risk
Functional
Physical risk
risk
Psychological
Social risk
risk
The Buying Decision Process
• Postpurchase behavior
– Postpurchase
satisfaction
– Postpurchase actions
– Postpurchase uses
and disposal
Customer Product Use/Disposal
Moderating Effects on Consumer Decision
Making
• Low-involvement Consumer Decision Making
• Variety-Seeking Buying Behavior
Behavioral Economics
• Decision Heuristics
– Availability heuristic
– Representativeness heuristic
– Anchoring and adjustment heuristic
• Framing
– Mental accounting
Mcq’s
•1) A person's ________ consist(s) of all the
groups that have a direct (face-to-face) or indirect
influence on his/her attitudes or behavior.
•A) subculture
•B) family
•C) social class
•D) reference groups
Mcq’s
•2) ________ refers to a set of distinguishing
human psychological traits that lead to relatively
consistent and enduring responses to
environmental stimuli.
•A) Image
•B) Personality
•C) Psychological transformation
•D) Lifestyle
Mcq’s
•3)IKEA has achieved global recognition by
offering consumers leading-edge Scandinavian
furniture at affordable prices. IKEA is delivering
value to consumers who are ________
constrained.
•A) money
•B) time
•C) brand
•D) value
Mcq’s
•4) At the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs
(shown as a pyramid in the text) are ________
needs.
•A) esteem
•B) self-actualization
•C) social
•D) safety
Mcq’s
•5) The buying process starts when the buyer
recognizes a(n) ________.
•A) product
•B) advertisement for the product
•C) salesperson from a previous visit
•D) problem or need
Mcq’s
•6) Brands that meet consumers' initial buying
criteria are called the ________ set.
•A) total
•B) awareness
•C) consideration
•D) choice
Mcq’s
•7) ________ are rules of thumb or mental
shortcuts in the decision process.
•A) Attitudes
•B) Beliefs
•C) Heuristics
•D) Discriminations
Mcq’s
•8) If a consumer is shopping for a smart phone,
all of the smart phone options available in the
market — whether a consumer knows about them
or not — is called the ________ set.
•A) awareness
•B) total
•C) consideration
•D) choice