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Consumer Behavior Buying Having and Being 11th Edition by Michael R. Solomon
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Chapter 1: Buying, Having, and Being: an Introduction to Consumer Behavior
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Q1) A consumer researcher who examines consumers' lifestyles and personalities is studying ________.
A) demographics
B) psychographics
C) social class
D) usage rates
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following is NOT closely associated with what your text terms the "horizontal revolution"?
A) Web 1.0
B) Web 2.0
C) C2C e-commerce
D) user-generated content
Answer: A
Q3) Big data is generated from ________.
A) smartphone GPS signals
B) credit card transactions
C) social media posts
D) all of the above
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Decision-Making and Consumer Behavior
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Q1) Les just bought a megaphone of root beer. As he drinks from the giant cup, he eventually becomes full. One of his friend's comments, "If you don't stop drinking that stuff, you will get sick." Les replies, "Hey, I bought it, and I am not going to waste one drop of it." Les's behavior could best be described by which of the following mental biases?
A) loss aversion
B) hyperopia
C) risk positioning
D) the sunk-cost fallacy
Answer: D
Q2) The concepts of mental accounting, prospect theory, and perceived risk all remind a marketer that the customer's perception is more important than an objective reality when trying to understand consumer behavior.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Describe the loss-aversion bias and provide an example from your own experience.
Answer: Loss aversion means that people place much more emphasis on loss than they do on gain. Student examples will vary.
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Chapter 3: Cultural Influences on Consumer Decision-Making
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Q1) The systematic acquisition of a particular object or set of objects is called
A) prioritizing
B) hoarding
C) collecting
D) ritualizing
Answer: C
Q2) Grooming rituals express two kinds of binary opposition: private/public and
A) work/leisure
B) self/others
C) pride/modesty
D) innocence/experience
Answer: A
Q3) Explain the three distinct stages of gift-giving rituals.
Answer: The three stages include gestation, presentation, and reformulation. Gestation is the preparation stage in which the giver procures an item. The presentation stage is the process of the actual exchange. Reformulation refers to the shift in the bond between giver and receiver due to the experience.
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Chapter 4: Consumer and Social Well Being
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Q1) Seventh Generation sells a line of cleaning products which is made from environmentally-friendly ingredients. This is an example of ________.
A) cause marketing
B) sustainability marketing
C) conscientious consumerism
D) green marketing
Q2) 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
Q3) The triple bottom-line orientation recognizes that businesses should strive to cut costs as well as raise revenue.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Participatory action research is also called transactional consumer research.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Perception
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Q1) A(n) ________ is a sign that relates to a product by either conventional or agreed-on associations.
A) icon
B) index
C) symbol
D) schema
Q2) Which of the following is NOT one of the three stages of the process of perception?
A) interpretation
B) adaptation
C) attention
D) exposure
Q3) When we ________ products, we evaluate them using schemas we typically apply to classify people.
A) prime
B) filter
C) imprint
D) anthropomorphize
Q4) What is the difference between sensation and perception?
Q5) What does the study of semiotics attempt to do?
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Chapter 6: Learning and Memory
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Q1) The observational learning process begins with a step called motivation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Secret shoppers may be used by marketers to test the effectiveness of service quality among employees. This is a form of variable-interval reinforcement.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Samantha is passing down the cereal aisle when she spots a box of Frosted Flakes cereal featuring Tony the Tiger on the box front. She remembers the taste of the cereal and how much fun she had talking to Tony while she ate her cereal as a kid. She buys a box and leaves the cereal aisle without examining any other cereal products. What aspect of the retrieval process did Samantha use in her product search process?
A) salience
B) the von Restoff effect
C) the spacing effect
D) state-dependent retrieval
Q4) People have a tendency to remember unusual ads more effectively than ads that are not. Why? What is this phenomenon called?
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Chapter 7: The Self
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Q1) Motivational research relies on ________ of individual consumers.
A) psychographic profiles
B) Jungian analysis
C) behavioral targeting
D) depth interviews
Q2) The ________ summarizes the beliefs a person holds about his own attributes and how he evaluates the self on these qualities.
A) actual self
B) self-esteem
C) self-image
D) self-concept
Q3) List and briefly describe four of Ernest Dichter's major motives for consumption as determined by motivational research.
Q4) People tend to pattern their behavior on the perceived expectations of others, which is a form of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the terms symbolic interactionism and the looking-glass self. Give an example of each term.
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Chapter 8: Attitudes and Persuasion
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Q1) Rick Tuan has a unique problem. He must persuade a good friend to stop smoking. He knows that if he just says "Quit," his message will be rejected. Instead, Rick chooses to offer a ________ message in which he presents the positives and negatives of quitting smoking. He feels sure that this approach will have a greater likelihood of success with his friend.
A) supportive
B) low-involvement
C) two-sided
D) refutational
Q2) Researchers agree that there are various levels of commitment to an attitude. The highest level of involvement is ________.
A) internalization
B) identification
C) compliance
D) actualization
Q3) According to the functional theory of attitudes, attitudes exist because they are hereditary.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Group and Situational Effects on Consumer Behavior
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Q1) According to exchange theory, what might occur if a salesperson interacts with an assertive consumer?
Q2) One of the most important in-store factors is the salesperson. This influence can be understood in terms of ________ theory, which stresses that each participant gives something to the other and hopes to receive something in return.
A) gestalt
B) exchange
C) gemba
D) satisfaction/dissatisfaction
Q3) What two basic dimensions determine if a shopper will react positively or negatively to a consumption environment? What factors can affect a consumer's moods in the shopping environment that are a) under the control of the marketer and b) not under the control of the marketer?
Q4) The likelihood that people will become part of a consumer's membership reference group is affected by three factors. Name and briefly discuss each of these factors.
Q5) If you were designing a large retail outlet for customers with a polychronic orientation, what would you want to provide?
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Chapter 10: Consumer Identity I: Sex Roles and Subcultures
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Q1) Several processes and outcomes come into play as immigrants adapt to their new surroundings. List these processes and outcomes and create an example that demonstrates the linkage between them.
Q2) ________ refers to the possession of both masculine and feminine traits.
A) Heterosexuality
B) Homosexuality
C) Dysmorphia
D) Androgyny
Q3) Approximately 60% of Hispanic Americans are of ________ descent.
A) Mexican
B) Puerto Rican
C) South American
D) Dominican
Q4) The cohort of consumers born between 1965 and 1985 has been labeled ________, or "baby busters."
A) Silent Generation
B) Generation X
C) Generation Y
D) Generation Z
Q5) Describe the baby boomer market and the impact it has had on marketing efforts.
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Chapter 11: Consumer Identity 2: Social Class and Lifestyles
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Q1) The flamboyant consumption of the nouveau riche is an example of symbolic self-completion.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Fred Johnson has worked hard all of his life to make a decent living for himself and his family. However, in recent years he has become obsessed with a fear of being ruined, either because of losing his job or losing all of his savings. According to clinical psychologists, Fred Johnson's fear of being ruined is equated to which of the following phobias?
A) atephobia
B) harpaxophia
C) peniaphobia
D) aurophobia
Q3) ________ defines a pattern of consumption reflecting a person's choices on how he or she spends their time and money.
A) Lifestyle
B) Habitus
C) Social class
D) Cultural capital
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Chapter 12: Networked Consumer Behavior:
Word-Of-Mouth, Social Media, and Fashion
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Q1) Social networks tend to be more successful if they create a sensation that participants are in a tangible place. This is known as ________.
A) presence
B) social object
C) atmospherics
D) framing
Q2) Because Stephanie is an innovator with computer products, marketers should assume that she is also an innovator with clothing styles.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Jenny just posted a tweet on Twitter about how much she loves a new movie. Jenny has potentially influenced others with ________.
A) word-of-mouth
B) C2C marketing
C) trickle-across promotion
D) viral marketing
Q4) What characteristics of opinion leaders make them valuable sources for product information?
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