SPMT 370 Waltemyer Unit 1 test
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Course Behavior - ANSWER ✔✔-is a dynamic process, that can involve many people, involves many
decisions, and involves consumer emotions
consumer behavior as a field of study - ANSWER ✔✔-study of consumers as they go about the
consumption process; the science of studying how consumers seek value in an effort to address real needs
Segmentation Types - ANSWER ✔✔-Behavior, Demographic, Psychographic
Behavior segmentation type - ANSWER ✔✔-Need-based, discount, new, and potential
Demographic - ANSWER ✔✔-Age, race/ethnicity, social class/income, sex/gender
Psychographic - ANSWER ✔✔-Believer, Experiencer, Innovator, Impulsive, Socialite, Wanderer
Touchpoint - ANSWER ✔✔-direct contacts between the firm and a customer
What affects consumer behavior? - ANSWER ✔✔-External influences, internal influences, decision
making process, outcomes and issues
What are the approaches to studying consumer behavior? - ANSWER ✔✔-Description, Explanatory, and
Exploratory (Quantitative- survey/questionnaire Qualitative- Ethnography, interviews, focus groups,
secret shoppers)
What does STP stand for? - ANSWER ✔✔-Segmentation, Targeting, Positioning
why is consumer behavior dynamic? - ANSWER ✔✔-Economy, technology, and globalization
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Consumer behavior theory - ANSWER ✔✔-illustrates factors that shape consumption-related behaviors
and determine the value associated with consumption
What is consumption? - ANSWER ✔✔-the process by which consumers use and transform products into
value
Value= - ANSWER ✔✔-benefits - costs
Utilitarian Value - ANSWER ✔✔-a value derived from a product or service that helps the consumer solve
problems and accomplish tasks
Hedonic Value - ANSWER ✔✔-value derived from the gratification that comes from some task
Total value concept (TVC) - ANSWER ✔✔-practiced when companies operate with the understanding
that products provide value in multiple ways
TVC - ANSWER ✔✔-Every produts value proposition is made up of the augmented elemets, plus the
ancillary elements
4 P's - ANSWER ✔✔-Product, Price, Place, Promotion
Product Differentiation - ANSWER ✔✔-creating and designing products so that customers perceive them
as different from competing products
product positioning - ANSWER ✔✔-the way a product is designed to create a perception in the mind of
the consumer
Perceptual map - ANSWER ✔✔-the tool used to graphically depict the positioning of competing products
Blue Ocean Strategy - ANSWER ✔✔-positioning a firm far away from competitors' positions so that it
creates an industry of its own and, at least for a time, isolates itself from competitors
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