MKT 350 UTK EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE
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1. 80/20 Rule - ANSWER ✔ 20 percent of users account for 80 percent of
sales.
2. demographics - ANSWER ✔ descriptive characteristics of a population
3. consumption communities - ANSWER ✔ members share opinions and
recommendations about anything from Barbie dolls to baseball fantasy
league team lineups to iPhone apps. Gail forms bonds with fellow group
members because they use the same products. There is also pressure on each
group member to buy things that will meet with the group's approval.
4. market segmentation strategies - ANSWER ✔ organization targets its
product, service, or idea only to specific groups of consumers rather than to
everybody—even if it means that other consumers who don't belong to this
target market aren't attracted to it.
5. consumer behavior - ANSWER ✔ It is the study of the processes involved
when individuals or groups select, purchase, use, or dispose of products,
services, ideas, or experiences to satisfy needs and desires.
6. exchange - ANSWER ✔ ransaction in which two or more organizations or
people give and receive something of value, is an integral part of marketing.
7. consumption process - ANSWER ✔ the issues that influence the consumer
before, during, and after a purchase.
,8. consumer - ANSWER ✔ person who identifies a need or desire, makes a
purchase, and then disposes of the product during the three stages of the
consumption process.
9. heavy users - ANSWER ✔ most faithful customers. Sometimes companies
define market segments when they identify their heavy users.
10.how we divide consumers up: demographics - ANSWER ✔ age, gender,
family structure, social class and income, race and ethnicity, lifestyles
11.how we divide consumers up - ANSWER ✔ demographics, geographics,
psychographics, behavioral
12.affirmative disclosure - ANSWER ✔ providing information about
negative/harmful effects. not desired by the advertisers, but protects
marketers from future liability claims.
13.sensation - ANSWER ✔ immediate response of our sensory receptors
(eyes, ears, nose, mouth, fingers, skin) to basic stimuli such as light, color,
sound, odor, and texture.
14.perception - ANSWER ✔ process by which people select, organize, and
interpret these sensations. The study of perception, then, focuses on what we
add to these raw sensations to give them meaning.
15.hedonic consumption - ANSWER ✔ multisensory, fantasy, and emotional
aspects of consumers' interactions with products.
16.context effects - ANSWER ✔ the sensations we experience that subtly
influence how we think about products we encounter.
17.sensory marketing - ANSWER ✔ companies think carefully about the
impact of sensations on our product experiences.
18.companies use sensory systems to create a ____ - ANSWER ✔ competitive
advantage.
,19.trade dress - ANSWER ✔ Some color combinations come to be so strongly
associated with a corporation that they become known as the company's
trade dress, and courts may even grant exclusive use of specific color
combinations: Eastman Kodak's trade dress protects its usage of its
distinctive yellow, black, and red boxes.
20.color forecasts - ANSWER ✔ predictions that manufacturers and retailers
buy so they can be sure they stock up on the next hot hue.
21.color meanings
yellow: - ANSWER ✔ happiness and optimism
22.green - ANSWER ✔ positivity and relaxation
23.brown - ANSWER ✔ strong and dependable
24.red - ANSWER ✔ confidence
25.orange - ANSWER ✔ ambition and energy
26.purple - ANSWER ✔ power
27.blue - ANSWER ✔ trust, peace, productivity. most universally liked color.
28.audio watermark - ANSWER ✔ a technique where composers and
producers weave a distinctive sound/motif into a piece of music that sticks in
people's minds over time.
29.sound symbolism - ANSWER ✔ process by which the way a word sounds
influences our assumptions about what it describes and attributes, such as
size. For example, consumers are more likely to recognize brand names that
begin with a hard consonant like a K (Kellogg's) or P (Pepsi).
30.endowment effect - ANSWER ✔ It seems that encouraging shoppers to
touch a product encourages them to imagine they own it, and researchers
know that people value things more highly if they own them.
, 31.haptic - ANSWER ✔ Haptic senses (touch) appear to moderate the
relationship between product experience and judgment confidence. This
confirms the commonsense notion that we're more sure about what we
perceive when we can touch it (a major problem for those who sell products
online).
32.kansei engineering - ANSWER ✔ philosophy that translates customers'
feelings into design elements.
33.natural user interface - ANSWER ✔ incorporates habitual human
movements that we don't have to learn.
34.stages: - ANSWER ✔ exposure, attention, interpretation (EAI).
35.exposure - ANSWER ✔ occurs when a stimulus comes within the range of
someone's sensory receptors.
36.sensory threshold - ANSWER ✔ point at which it is strong enough to make
a conscious impact in his or her awareness.
37.psychophysics - ANSWER ✔ focuses on how people integrate the physical
environment into their personal, subjective worlds.
38.absolute threshold - ANSWER ✔ refers to the minimum amount of
stimulation a person can detect on a given sensory channel.
39.differential threshold - ANSWER ✔ ability of a sensory system to detect
changes in or differences between two stimuli.
40.JND - ANSWER ✔ The minimum difference we can detect between two
stimuli.
41.Weber's Law - ANSWER ✔ that the amount of change required for the
perceiver to notice a change systematically relates to the intensity of the
original stimulus. The stronger the initial stimulus, the greater a change must
be for us to notice it.
2026/2027 ACCURATE QUESTIONS WITH
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<NEWEST VERSION>
1. 80/20 Rule - ANSWER ✔ 20 percent of users account for 80 percent of
sales.
2. demographics - ANSWER ✔ descriptive characteristics of a population
3. consumption communities - ANSWER ✔ members share opinions and
recommendations about anything from Barbie dolls to baseball fantasy
league team lineups to iPhone apps. Gail forms bonds with fellow group
members because they use the same products. There is also pressure on each
group member to buy things that will meet with the group's approval.
4. market segmentation strategies - ANSWER ✔ organization targets its
product, service, or idea only to specific groups of consumers rather than to
everybody—even if it means that other consumers who don't belong to this
target market aren't attracted to it.
5. consumer behavior - ANSWER ✔ It is the study of the processes involved
when individuals or groups select, purchase, use, or dispose of products,
services, ideas, or experiences to satisfy needs and desires.
6. exchange - ANSWER ✔ ransaction in which two or more organizations or
people give and receive something of value, is an integral part of marketing.
7. consumption process - ANSWER ✔ the issues that influence the consumer
before, during, and after a purchase.
,8. consumer - ANSWER ✔ person who identifies a need or desire, makes a
purchase, and then disposes of the product during the three stages of the
consumption process.
9. heavy users - ANSWER ✔ most faithful customers. Sometimes companies
define market segments when they identify their heavy users.
10.how we divide consumers up: demographics - ANSWER ✔ age, gender,
family structure, social class and income, race and ethnicity, lifestyles
11.how we divide consumers up - ANSWER ✔ demographics, geographics,
psychographics, behavioral
12.affirmative disclosure - ANSWER ✔ providing information about
negative/harmful effects. not desired by the advertisers, but protects
marketers from future liability claims.
13.sensation - ANSWER ✔ immediate response of our sensory receptors
(eyes, ears, nose, mouth, fingers, skin) to basic stimuli such as light, color,
sound, odor, and texture.
14.perception - ANSWER ✔ process by which people select, organize, and
interpret these sensations. The study of perception, then, focuses on what we
add to these raw sensations to give them meaning.
15.hedonic consumption - ANSWER ✔ multisensory, fantasy, and emotional
aspects of consumers' interactions with products.
16.context effects - ANSWER ✔ the sensations we experience that subtly
influence how we think about products we encounter.
17.sensory marketing - ANSWER ✔ companies think carefully about the
impact of sensations on our product experiences.
18.companies use sensory systems to create a ____ - ANSWER ✔ competitive
advantage.
,19.trade dress - ANSWER ✔ Some color combinations come to be so strongly
associated with a corporation that they become known as the company's
trade dress, and courts may even grant exclusive use of specific color
combinations: Eastman Kodak's trade dress protects its usage of its
distinctive yellow, black, and red boxes.
20.color forecasts - ANSWER ✔ predictions that manufacturers and retailers
buy so they can be sure they stock up on the next hot hue.
21.color meanings
yellow: - ANSWER ✔ happiness and optimism
22.green - ANSWER ✔ positivity and relaxation
23.brown - ANSWER ✔ strong and dependable
24.red - ANSWER ✔ confidence
25.orange - ANSWER ✔ ambition and energy
26.purple - ANSWER ✔ power
27.blue - ANSWER ✔ trust, peace, productivity. most universally liked color.
28.audio watermark - ANSWER ✔ a technique where composers and
producers weave a distinctive sound/motif into a piece of music that sticks in
people's minds over time.
29.sound symbolism - ANSWER ✔ process by which the way a word sounds
influences our assumptions about what it describes and attributes, such as
size. For example, consumers are more likely to recognize brand names that
begin with a hard consonant like a K (Kellogg's) or P (Pepsi).
30.endowment effect - ANSWER ✔ It seems that encouraging shoppers to
touch a product encourages them to imagine they own it, and researchers
know that people value things more highly if they own them.
, 31.haptic - ANSWER ✔ Haptic senses (touch) appear to moderate the
relationship between product experience and judgment confidence. This
confirms the commonsense notion that we're more sure about what we
perceive when we can touch it (a major problem for those who sell products
online).
32.kansei engineering - ANSWER ✔ philosophy that translates customers'
feelings into design elements.
33.natural user interface - ANSWER ✔ incorporates habitual human
movements that we don't have to learn.
34.stages: - ANSWER ✔ exposure, attention, interpretation (EAI).
35.exposure - ANSWER ✔ occurs when a stimulus comes within the range of
someone's sensory receptors.
36.sensory threshold - ANSWER ✔ point at which it is strong enough to make
a conscious impact in his or her awareness.
37.psychophysics - ANSWER ✔ focuses on how people integrate the physical
environment into their personal, subjective worlds.
38.absolute threshold - ANSWER ✔ refers to the minimum amount of
stimulation a person can detect on a given sensory channel.
39.differential threshold - ANSWER ✔ ability of a sensory system to detect
changes in or differences between two stimuli.
40.JND - ANSWER ✔ The minimum difference we can detect between two
stimuli.
41.Weber's Law - ANSWER ✔ that the amount of change required for the
perceiver to notice a change systematically relates to the intensity of the
original stimulus. The stronger the initial stimulus, the greater a change must
be for us to notice it.
