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Chapter 2: Consumer Perception
Consumer Behavior: Michael R. Solomon 9th Edition
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Marketing
Undergraduate 3
03/03/2011

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Sensation
Definition
immediate response of our sensory receptors (ear, eye, nose, mouth, fingers) to basic stimuli (sound, light color, odor, taste, texture
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Perception
Definition
process by which sensations are selected, organized and interpreted
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Vision: Color
Definition

  • provokes emotion
  • reactions to color are biological and cultural
  • in marketing is serious business

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Vision: Size
Definition

  • we tend to eat more when:
  • food container is larger
  • our plate still contains food
  • when we see assortment of foods

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Smell: Odors
Definition
Odors = mood & memory (limbic system)
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Hearing
Definition

many aspects of sound affect people's feelings and behaviors

 

  • Phonemes of brands = unique product meanings
  • 'i' brands are 'lighter' than 'a' brands

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Touch
Definition

  • Haptic senses affect product experience & judgement
  • Kansei engineering
  • fabric textures and surfaces with products & packaging

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Exposure
Definition
a stimulus comes within range of someone's sensory receptors
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Sensory Thresholds
Definition

  • psychophysics
  • Absolute threshold
  • dog whistle
  • billboard with too small print

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Sensory Thresholds: Differential
Definition

  • J.N.D (Just Noticeable Difference)
  • Weber's law

 

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Attention
Definition
the extent to which processing activity is devoted to a particular stimulus
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Competition for our attention
Definition
3,500 ad info pieces per day
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Perceptual Selection
Definition
psychic economy
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perceptual vigilance
Definition

perceptual selection:

related to current needs

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perceptual defense
Definition

perceptual selection:

see what we want to see

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Interpretational Biases
Definition

we often interpret ambiguous stimuli based on our experiences, expectations, and needs

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Semiotics
Definition

  • correspondence between signs and symbols and their role in the assignment of meaning
  • consumer products = social identities

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Positioning
Definition

A set of strategies a firm develops to differentiate its offering in the minds of its target customers.  Successful positioning will result in the offering occupying a distinct, important, and sustainable position in the minds of the target customers.

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Perceptual Map
Definition
a vivid way to paint a picture of where consumers locate products or brands in their minds
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Hyperreality
Definition
process of making real what is initially simulation or "hype"
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Symbol
Definition
a sign that relates to a product by either conventional or agreed-on associations
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Principle of Similarity
Definition
consumers tend to group together objects that share similar physical characteristics
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Figure-ground principle
Definition
states that one part of a stimulus will dominate (the figure) and other parts recede into the background (the ground).
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Closure Principle
Definition
people tend to perceive an incomplete picture as complete
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Schema
Definition
set of beliefs
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Priming
Definition
certain properties of a stimulus evoke a schema
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Interpretation
Definition
refers to the meanings we assign to sensory stimuli
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