Reference no: EM132221249
1. Which is WRONGabout psychological factors affecting consumer behavior:
- consumer attitudes are fairly easy for marketers to change, leading to much brand switching.
- consumers often find it difficult to fully describe their buying motives.
- learning through generalization helps to account for the popularity of families of consumer product brands.
- people selectively attend to stimuli, e.g., commercials, which are familiar or anticipated.
2. With regard to our authors’ 5-stage model of consumer decision making:
- consumers try to reduce purchase risk by purchasing high-priced products.
- group influences begin to affect consumer behavior at the alternative evaluation stage.
- marketers can reduce a buyer’s post-purchase dissonance by keeping in touch with him/her.
- need recognition is triggered by stimuli within the consumer, leading him/herto seek out products.
3. Which of the following is an example of a product that is being sold in the business market?
- a mailbox to go in front of Pete’s new house.
- a thermometer to hang on the front porch of a school bus driver’s home.
- a truckload of sand to use on the beach being built for a lakefront resort.
- registration fee paid for a membership in a private health club.
4. Engineering personnel would have the most influence when the organization is:
- buying space for its booth at a national agricultural trade show
- designing a display rack for its pamphlets on areas of interest to farmers
- purchasing component parts for the farm equipment the organization manufactures
- renewing its subscriptions to several trade journals