Integrated Marketing Communications
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Course Introduction
Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) is a comprehensive course that explores the strategic coordination of various promotional tools such as advertising, public relations, sales promotion, direct marketing, and digital media to deliver a unified message to target audiences. Students learn how to develop and implement cohesive marketing campaigns that effectively reinforce brand values and achieve organizational objectives. The course covers the principles and processes underlying effective communication, audience analysis, media selection, message development, and campaign evaluation, emphasizing the importance of consistency and synergy across all marketing channels in today's digital and globalized marketplace.
Recommended Textbook 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) Drive theory struggles to explain why people may delay gratification of a want.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) A consumer experience that integrates multiple media channels, ranging from television, email, and digital, to engage a community of players who collaborate to solve a puzzle is called a(n) ________.
A) social game
B) casual game
C) transmedia story
D) alternate reality game
Answer: D
Q3) A paradigm is a belief that guides an understanding of the world.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Demographics are statistics that measure observable aspects of a population. A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Decision-Making and Consumer Behavior
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Q1) Kent, a college student, is a loyal Coca-Cola drinker. He averages about six Cokes a day. He even prefers Coke to water. However, today when he passed a vending machine in his dorm, he bought a new flavor of soft drink called Big Red. Which of the following most accurately explains his behavior, given the facts about Kent's previous behavior?
A) Kent is variety seeking.
B) Kent is brand switching.
C) Kent is involved in cognitive decision-making.
D) Kent is influenced by peer pressure.
Answer: A
Q2) How can a marketer boost a person's motivation to process relevant information?
A) using novel stimuli
B) using broadcast media
C) approaching a mass market
D) minimizing competitive scope
Answer: A
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) Every year, the students at a prestigious engineering school remove a car from the parking lot and place it on the highest point of the roof of the main engineering building. The students have been doing this for decades, but not once has anyone ever confided to an outsider how it was done. This is a classic example of a ritual.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Researchers primarily see the gift-giving ritual as one of ________ exchange.
A) transactional
B) stylistic
C) psychological
D) economic
Answer: D
Q3) A metaphysical myth fulfills the cultural function of explaining how the components of the universe relate to each other.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Consumer and Social Well Being
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Q1) The term "Crackberry" is used to refer to the ________ die-hard users may feel towards the Blackberry.
A) consumer addition
B) material need
C) lateral addiction
D) sustainable cause
Q2) Business ethics are rules of conduct published by the Better Business Bureau that guide actions in the marketplace.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The mindfulness with which consumers may shop and make decisions in order to make the right decisions - for themselves and for the environment - is known as
A) green marketing
B) social marketing
C) conscientious consumerism
D) sustainable thinking
Q4) Sustainability and green marketing are the same thing.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Perception
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Q1) A consumer's ability to detect a difference between two stimuli is relative to the strength of those stimuli.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Research has indicated that the color ________ creates feelings of arousal and stimulates appetite.
A) blue
B) red
C) yellow
D) black
Q3) Which of the following is most relevant to a company that wants to position a new brand on price leadership?
A) Gestalt psychology
B) Weber's Law
C) augmented reality
D) the closure principle
Q4) Evaluate the effectiveness of subliminal persuasion and messages in marketing. Be sure to demonstrate your knowledge of the evidence about the success of the technique as presented in the text.
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Chapter 6: Learning and Memory
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Q1) The spacing effect describes the tendency for consumers to recall printed material more effectively when the advertiser repeats the target item repeatedly in a short time period rather than periodically over a longer time span.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Define the terms learning and incidental learning.
Q3) A sales manager pays a bonus to new trainees when they develop a good sales prospectus. Later, after the trainees have completed two months of training, the manger pays a bonus only for an actual sale. The manager is applying what process of instrumental conditioning to help the trainees be productive in their sales careers?
A) shaping
B) modeling
C) negative reinforcement
D) variable-ratio reinforcement
Q4) Why would short-term memory be greatly impaired, or perhaps made impossible, without sensory memory?
Q5) Why isn't the behavioral change associated with breaking a bone typically considered to be learning?
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Chapter 7: The Self
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Q1) The U.S. government estimates that approximately ________ of American adults are overweight or obese.
A) 25 percent
B) 35 percent
C) 50 percent
D) 66 percent
Q2) The reality principle, according to Freudian psychology, is behavior guided by the primary desire to maximize pleasure and avoid pain.
A)True
B)False
Q3) People in every culture adorn or alter their bodies in some way. Decorating the self serves a number of purposes. Which of the following is NOT one of those purposes?
A) to separate group members from non-group members
B) to place the individual in the social organization
C) to enhance sex-role identification
D) to indicate expected life-span
Q4) Describe how ideals of beauty within a culture motivate consumers to change themselves physically. Mention specific categories where this occurs.
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Chapter 8: Attitudes and Persuasion
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Q1) In the communications model, the element in which the message originates is the
A) medium
B) source
C) message
D) consumer
Q2) Which theory of attitudes states that people are motivated to take action to resolve inconsistencies between attitudes and behaviors?
A) theory of cognitive dissonance
B) self-perception theory
C) social judgment theory
D) balance theory
Q3) Despite improvements to the Fishbein model, all of the following are considered obstacles to predicting behavior using this model EXCEPT which one?
A) The model has relatively weak theorems about attitudes.
B) The model deals with actual behavior, not with the outcomes of behavior.
C) Some behavioral outcomes are beyond the consumer's control.
D) Measures of attitude often do not correspond to the behavior they are supposed to predict.
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Chapter 9: Group and Situational Effects on Consumer Behavior
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Q1) Reference groups influence consumers in three ways. Name these three ways and describe the nature of the influence upon the consumer.
Q2) Like end consumers, organizational buyers are influenced by both internal and external stimuli. Which of the following is an example of an organizational buyer's internal stimuli?
A) the nature of the organization
B) the buyer's willingness to take risks
C) the technological environment's impact on the organization
D) the economic environment's impact on the organization
Q3) Which dimension of psychological time includes the categorization of "time for me"?
A) temporal orientation dimension
B) planning orientation dimension
C) social dimension
D) polychronic dimension
Q4) People we admire influence us because they hold reward power.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why are modern industrialized societies dependent upon perceptions of time?
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Chapter 10: Consumer Identity I: Sex Roles and Subcultures
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Q1) Advertising to teens typically depicts ________.
A) respected adults recommending the product
B) qualified experts explaining product benefits
C) a group of "in" teens using the product
D) family members using the product together
Q2) By 2050, immigrants will constitute more than 50 percent of the American population.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Peggy Simmons has a tough assignment. She is to live in Japan for the next five years and successfully introduce her company's line of cosmetics to the Japanese woman. Her company's management hopes that living in an average neighborhood, commuting to work every day, eating native food, and speaking Japanese will help Peggy involve herself in the society more quickly than if she stayed separate from her hosts. The company's management wants Peggy to use the ________ model.
A) life course paradigm
B) progressive learning
C) warming
D) consumer identity renaissance
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Chapter 11: Consumer Identity 2: Social Class and Lifestyles
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Q1) Sandra Jackson decided to become a nurse after several years as an elementary teacher. She still wanted to help people; she just wanted to do it differently. Sandra's case is an example of which of the following?
A) downward mobility
B) upward mobility
C) horizontal mobility
D) status crystallization
Q2) Sixteen-year-old Michael wanted a car. One evening while his father was paying bills, Michael looked over his father's shoulder and saw how much money had been placed in the checking account. He whistled and said, "I thought you said that you didn't have enough money to buy me a used car. In just one month, you could buy me the car I want." Michael's father then gave him a lecture on the differences between income and what is left after money is spent on utilities, mortgages, insurance premiums, and food. "Total income," his father said, "is not the same as ________ income, the source from which your unnecessary car would have to come."
A) wealth
B) managed
C) perpetual
D) discretionary
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Chapter 12: Networked Consumer Behavior:
Word-Of-Mouth, Social Media, and Fashion
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Q1) As people transmit information to one another, they tend to change the message.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is a market maven? How does a market maven differ from an opinion leader?
Q3) The most common method of identifying opinion leaders is to use the social registry document kept by most city newspapers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) 80% of brand mentions online are made by just 6.2% of social media users. Forrester Research calls these influencers ________.
A) salespeople
B) power users
C) mass connectors
D) mass networker
Q5) What is a social game? Is Angry Birds a social game? Why or why not?
Q6) Word-of-mouth has a more powerful effect on consumers than paid advertising does.
A)True B)False
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