Advertising and Promotions Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Advertising and Promotions explores the theories, strategies, and practical applications of modern advertising and promotional activities within the context of integrated marketing communications. The course examines the role of advertising in building brand awareness, shaping consumer perceptions, and driving product demand, while also analyzing the development of creative messaging and media selection. Students will learn to evaluate campaign effectiveness, understand consumer behavior, and design cohesive promotional strategies that utilize traditional, digital, and social media platforms to reach target audiences effectively. Throughout the course, ethical considerations, regulatory issues, and the impact of advertising on society will be discussed.
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Consumer Behaviour Buying Having Being 4th Australia Edition by Michael R. Solomon
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Chapter 1: Buying, Having, and Being
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Q1) Regularly sending text messages rather than communicating by voice is characteristic of a digital native.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Consumers and the items they consume can take many forms.Give examples of three different types of consumers and three different types of items they could consume, including products, services and ideas.
Answer: Examples will vary.Consumers can include individuals of any age, groups and organisations.Items consumed can include products such as toys, cars and food; services such as dentist appointments, haircuts and massages; and ideas such as democracy and the green movement.
Q3) Demographics refer to aspects of a person's lifestyle and personality. A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Consumer and Social Well-Being
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Q1) The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) policies advertising claims related to the contents of edible products and pharmaceuticals.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Explain the term 'real-time bidding.'
Answer: Real-time bidding is an electronic trading system that sells ad space on the Web pages people click on at the very moment they visit them.
Q3) Consumer addiction can occur with any product category, even lip balm.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) The concept of 'cradle to cradle' means that we should market consumers from the time they are born until the time they give birth.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Perception
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Q1) ________ roughly means whole, pattern or configuration; this perspective is best summarised by the saying 'the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.'
A)Freudian traits analysis
B)Weber's Law
C)Gestalt
D)Kinsei
Answer: C
Q2) As a personal selection factor, adaptation is seen as the degree to which consumers continue to notice a stimulus over time.Five factors can lead to adaptation.List the five factors and briefly describe their connection with adaptation. Standard/Graduate Attribute:
Answer: The five factors are intensity (less-intense stimuli habituate because they have less impact), duration (stimuli that are long in duration tend to habituate), discrimination (simple stimuli habituate because they do not require attention to detail), exposure (frequently encountered stimuli habituate as the rate of exposure increases) and relevance (stimuli that are irrelevant or unimportant habituate because they fail to attract attention).
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Chapter 4: Learning and Memory
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Q1) Conditioning effects are more likely to occur after the conditioned and unconditioned stimuli have been paired a number of times.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is the capacity of short-term memory? Comment and explain.
Q3) When a company engages in a 'piggybacking strategy,' it is hoping that customers will be able to discriminate between the company's product and a competitor's product.
A)True
B)False
Q4) People tend to give 'yes' responses to questions, regardless of what they are asked.This is an example of ________.
A)response bias
B)elaborative rehearsal
C)salience
D)nostalgia
Q5) Retrieval is the process whereby we recover information from long-term memory.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Personality
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Q1) Jeffrey Quills often boycotts companies and products that he thinks do not align with his ethical worldview.Which of the following personality traits most likely apply to Jeffrey?
A)Conscientious
B)Closed-minded
C)Curious
D)Conservative
Q2) Arnold is a highly acclaimed visual artist who spends most of his time working on his paintings alone in his loft, almost never seeing friends or family.He knows he has talent, and he loves envisioning and create new art that stands apart from anything others have done.What type of music does Arnold likely enjoy listening to the most?
A)Country and Western
B)Indie music
C)Pop music
D)Classical music
Q3) Explain the basic premise of trait theory.What are the problems in using trait theory for consumer research?
Q4) What did Freud mean when he said, 'sometimes a cigar is just a cigar'?
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Chapter 6: Motivation and Values
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Q1) Melissa's mother has become a socialisation agent for the family since she is primarily responsible for teaching everyone how to interact with and respond to Europeans on their upcoming three-month European vacation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Why are approach-approach conflicts likely to create more cognitive dissonance than approach-avoidance conflicts?
A)Approach-avoidance conflicts result when the positive alternative simply overwhelms the negative, thus no cognitive dissonance exists under this condition.
B)Approach-approach conflicts result when both alternatives are positive.The selection of one requires the rejection of another, which creates a need for a cognitive explanation of why one positive choice was not selected.
C)Approach-avoidance conflicts create inertia, thus past habits are employed without the need to resolve the cognitive inconsistencies.
D)Approach-approach conflicts are very confusing to resolve intellectually, but approach-avoidance conflicts are typically simply resolved through behavioural aspects of reinforcement learning.
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Chapter 7: The Self: Mind, Gender and Body
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Q1) Men are more likely to use a woman's body shape as a sexual cue.One explanation of this phenomenon is that feminine curves provide evidence of ________.
A)compatibility
B)reproductive potential
C)intellectual capacity
D)sociability
Q2) Briefly discuss gender differences in socialisation, female sex roles, and male sex roles in our society.
Q3) It has been established that consumers buy products that they see as similar to themselves rather than consumers assuming that such products must be similar to themselves because they bought them.
A)True
B)False
Q4) 'Maleness-femaleness' and 'masculinity and femininity' -do these terms basically mean the same thing? Discuss and illustrate with sex-typed products.
Q5) A person's actual self is a person's conception of how he/she would like to be.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Attitudes and Attitude Change
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Q1) Both the Fishbein model and the extended Fishbein model attempt to measure the influence of attitudes.What was the flaw in the original model and what was added in the extended model to correct this flaw?
Q2) Balance theory reminds us that consistency is necessary to make any consumer decision.
A)True
B)False
Q3) ________ refers to a strategy in which a message compares two or more specifically named or recognisably presented brands and evaluates them in terms of one or more specific attributes.
A)Cognitive differentiation
B)Emotional appeal
C)Comparative advertising
D)Conclusion advertising
Q4) The theory of cognitive dissonance is based on the ________.
A)knowledge function
B)principle of cognitive consistency
C)principle of cognitive-affect conflict
D)self-identification function
Q5) Describe the functional theory of attitudes and its components (functions).
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Chapter 9: Individual Decision-Making
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Q1) A consumer who moves his or her ideal state upward is experiencing ________.
A)opportunity recognition
B)search recognition
C)habitual recognition
D)need recognition
Q2) At the supermarket, Ellie wanted to buy some bread.In the bread aisle, she realized there were hundreds of brands, and each brand had multiple styles, some of which were indistinguishable from each other.Eventually, she just grabbed a load that had a label design which she preferred.Ellie experienced consumer hyperchoice.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In a thought process called ________, we evaluate the effort we'll need to make a particular choice and then we tailor the amount of cognitive 'effort' we expend to make that choice.
A)utility processing
B)experiential processing
C)constructive processing
D)behavioural processing
Q4) List and define the five stages of the consumer decision-making process.
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Chapter 10: Buying, Using and Disposing
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Q1) During ________, one consumer exchanges something she owns with someone else for something the other person owns.
A)freegan sharing
B)divestment
C)disposal casting
D)lateral cycling
Q2) Which of the following is the best example of a utilitarian shopping motive?
A)A consumer shops to 'hang out' with friends at a local shopping centre.
B)A consumer shops because he or she loves the thrill of finding a bargain.
C)A consumer shops to efficiently purchase groceries for the week.
D)A consumer shops because he or she enjoys attention from salespeople.
Q3) In Las Vegas, properties have assumed themes that range from modern New York to ancient Egypt.This attempt at retail theming stresses the importance of the post-purchase process.
A)True
B)False
Q4) List each of the five antecedent states identified in the chapter.Next, indicate the three purchase environment activities that match the five antecedent states.
Q5) What is the difference between unplanned buying and impulse buying?
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Chapter 11: Groups and Social Influence
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Q1) What characteristics of opinion leaders make them valuable sources for product information?
Q2) The importance of weak ties in a social system is demonstrated by their ________.
A)bridging function
B)social contagion
C)momentum effect
D)diffusion of responsibility
Q3) Define the term reference group and explain the difference between a membership reference group and an aspirational reference group.
Q4) An individual's motivation to distance himself from a negative reference group cannot be as powerful as his motivation to please a positive group.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Cultures around the world encourage different degrees of conformity.
A)True
B)False
Q6) With respect to opinion leadership, compare the self-designating model and the key informant method.
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Chapter 12: Ethnicity, Religion and Age
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Q1) Explain the difference between a high-context culture and a low-context culture.Give an example of each and explain the reason for your choice(s).
Q2) Tyler decided to restore a 1970s Porsche.When he started, he wasn't sure where he could find certain parts and product information.He rapidly found that there was an entire group of people who restored classic Porsches.Tyler has been introduced to an acculturation agent.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following best explains why marketers view teens as 'consumers-in-training'?
A)Teenagers have little influence on their families' purchase decisions, but they carefully watch and model the consumer behaviour of their parents.
B)Marketers typically do not begin targeting consumers until they are teenagers.
C)Teenagers have little discretionary income, so they have few opportunities to make independent purchase decisions.
D)Teenagers often develop brand loyalty during their adolescence, committing to a brand and continuing to purchase it for decades to come.
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Chapter 13: Lifestyle, Income and Social Class
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Q1) The psychographic variables used by researchers to group consumers are area, income and occupation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Measures of consumer confidence can help marketers predict how much money consumers will pump into the economy through discretionary purchases.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following questions would be LEAST likely to appear on a questionnaire designed to determine consumer confidence?
A)'Would you say that you and your family are better off or worse off financially than a year ago?'
B)'Will you be better off or worse off a year from now?'
C)'Are you happy with your wife (husband)?'
D)'Do you plan to buy a car in the next year?'
Q4) For the most part, marketers fail to use social-class information as effectively as they could.List five reasons why this failure might occur.Be specific.
Q5) What are AIOs, and how do contemporary psychographic researchers use them?
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Chapter 14: The Culture of Consumption
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Q1) Every year, the students at a prestigious liberal arts college select musical instruments they can't play.They then walk around the town playing the instruments as badly and as loudly as possible.The students have been doing this for decades, but not once has any student ever given a reason for why they do this.This is a classic example of a ritual.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is an object that is admired strictly for its beauty or because it inspires an emotional reaction?
A)An art product
B)A reality-engineered product
C)A craft product
D)A trial product
Q3) Romance novels often follow a cultural formula.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Use cultural ideas about food and eating as examples to explain the differences between the three types of crescive norms discussed in the book.
Q5) How can a myth be true and false at the same time?
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