Luxury Brand Management
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Course Introduction
Luxury Brand Management explores the unique strategies, principles, and challenges involved in managing prestigious brands in the luxury sector. Students will examine the history, evolution, and current landscape of luxury brands, gaining insight into how exclusivity, heritage, quality, and emotional resonance are leveraged to create premium value. The course covers topics such as brand positioning, product development, marketing, retail experiences, and global expansion within the luxury industry, as well as the impact of digital trends and sustainability concerns. Through case studies and real-world examples, students will develop the analytical tools and strategic thinking required to build, sustain, and grow successful luxury brands in a competitive marketplace.
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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) Which of the following is an example of C2C e-commerce?
A) RFID tags
B) virtual brand communities
C) database marketing
D) green marketing
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a stage in the consumption process?
A) desire
B) pre-purchase
C) purchase
D) post-purchase
Answer: A
Q3) A marketer who segments a population by age and gender is using ________ to categorize consumers.
A) demographics
B) psychographics
C) roles
D) lifestyle
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Decision-Making and Consumer Behavior
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Q1) Tomorrow, Janice will be attending a party with a buffet. In anticipation of splurging on delicious food, she is eating very little today. Janice is using a ________ to help her estimate consumption over time and regulate her behavior.
A) constructive process
B) mental budget
C) diet
D) cognitive process
Answer: B
Q2) As a customer's product knowledge increases, what typically happens to the amount of search conducted by the consumer?
A) It will remain the same.
B) It will sharply decrease and then sharply increase.
C) It will decrease, and then increase as the customer becomes more knowledgeable.
D) It will increase, and then decrease as the customer becomes more knowledgeable.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Cultural Influences on Consumer Decision-Making
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Q1) All of the following are subsystems in a culture production system EXCEPT
A) creative subsystem
B) managerial subsystem
C) marketing subsystem
D) communications subsystem
Answer: C
Q2) 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
Q3) Values associated with a long-term orientation are respect for social obligations and the need to save face.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Consumer and Social Well Being
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Q1) Which of the following qualities is a requirement for products to qualify for a listing on Amazon's Vine website?
A) green
B) blue
C) pink
D) white
Q2) Serial wardrobers are people who ________.
A) sell fake versions of real outfits
B) deface clothing and shoes
C) buy an outfit, wear it once, and return it
D) shop obsessively for trendy clothing
Q3) Ralph Nader's book, Unsafe at Any Speed, was published in part to enforce the consumer's right to ________.
A) safety
B) complain
C) choose
D) redress
Q4) Cause marketing is the same as social marketing.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Perception
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Q1) A billboard is positioned beside a busy highway. However, the merchant that has purchased the billboard complains that no response is being generated by his advertising message. Upon closer inspection, the billboard company determines that the typeface used is too small to be effectively read by a motorist going 60+ mph on the highway. Which of the following sensory thresholds would be most appropriate to explain the failure of this advertisement to connect with motorists?
A) the intensity threshold
B) the differential threshold
C) the absolute threshold
D) the relative threshold
Q2) 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
Q3) List the three stages of the perception process and give a brief definition of each.
Q4) What is the difference between sensation and perception?
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Chapter 6: Learning and Memory
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Q1) Episodic memories are likely to become part of a person's long-term memory.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A free recall test of a sample of potential customers would involve showing ads one at a time and asking each respondent if she had seen it before.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Marketers assist in the process called elaborative rehearsal when they use catchy slogans or jingles to help consumers remember information about products or services.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Shari Gomez sees the big red heart on the front of a Cheerios box and immediately thinks of an ad she has seen that discusses the heart-healthy benefits of Cheerios. This is an illustration of a stimulus-response connection.
A)True
B)False
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) In a Freudian interpretation, what is the function of the ego?
A) The ego is a system that mediates between the id and the superego.
B) The ego determines an individual's degree of self-involvement.
C) The ego operates on the pleasure principle and is constantly seeking psychological dominance and enjoyment.
D) The ego is one of several archetypes that represent the shared memories and motives of almost all humans.
Q2) A Unilever-sponsored survey that asked American women how they felt about their appearance reported which of the following?
A) Positive feelings about the self were lowest in ethnic groups such as African American and Hispanic women.
B) Older women were more likely to describe themselves as beautiful.
C) The majority of respondents believe that our society does not use reasonable standards to evaluate women's beauty.
D) The majority of respondents believe that beauty comes from a woman's physical appearance.
Q3) Explain and give a brief example of symbolic self-completion theory.
Q4) Explain how the concept of self-esteem is used in advertising.
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Chapter 8: Attitudes and Persuasion
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Q1) 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.
Q2) Physically attractive people are perceived as smarter, cooler, and happier than average people. These perceptions are a result of a ________.
A) halo effect
B) principle of cognitive dissonance
C) balance theory
D) self-perception theory
Q3) The psychological principle of reciprocity is at work when we take into account what others do before we decide what to do.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the functional theory of attitudes and its components (functions).
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Chapter 9: Group and Situational Effects on Consumer Behavior
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Q1) A typical utilitarian shopping motive is interpersonal attraction.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In a(n) ________, consumers participate in the production of the products or services they buy.
A) pop-up store
B) minipreneur shop
C) activity store
D) sharing site
Q3) ________ means that the person who is least interested in staying in the relationship has the most power.
A) Social loafing
B) Principle of least interest
C) Responsibility diffusion
D) Commitment
Q4) Why does a typical casino have low ceilings, no windows, no clocks, and no straight aisles?
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) Jui-Jui has a need to achieve independence. He dreams daily of leaving home and getting his own apartment; however, because he lives in a neighborhood full of houses, he would have to go some distance to find an apartment that he could afford. This move would mean that he would distance himself from his friends. This example is a common dilemma for many teens. Which of the following conflicts that most teens face is most applicable to Jui-Jui's situation?
A) autonomy versus belonging
B) rebellion versus conformity
C) idealism versus pragmatism
D) narcissism versus intimacy
Q2) Through the process of ________, immigrants make the unfamiliar familiar by integrating symbols from their former lives into their new homes.
A) assimilation
B) maintenance
C) resistance
D) warming
Q3) The typical immigrant today in the United States is most likely from Europe.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Consumer Identity 2: Social Class and Lifestyles
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Q1) Many 20-somethings have rebelled against their more affluent parents by mocking wealth, wearing shredded jeans, and driving boxy cars. These are examples of what is called a modern potlatch.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When people are differentiated in terms of their aesthetic and intellectual preferences, a ________ concept is being applied.
A) cultural code designation
B) social cluster
C) taste culture
D) consumption constellation
Q3) Tian Zhao's parents were peasants from central China. Tian got a degree in electronics from a university and now works for a medium-sized technology firm. Tian recently purchased a Canon camera and a Dell computer, and he wears Nike running shoes. He shares an apartment with a co-worker and hopes to buy a house in five years. Tian is a member of the mass class.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain the concept of social mobility and its various forms.
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Chapter 12: Networked Consumer Behavior:
Word-Of-Mouth, Social Media, and Fashion
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Q1) On Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper plays a ________ expert with knowledge in topics ranging from flag history to string theory.
A) market mavens
B) monomorphic
C) polymorphic
D) generalized
Q2) Vicente is conducting research to test the hypothesis that the social contagion effect is weak in adults. His finding that adults who have a close friend who abstains from drinking alcohol are more likely to abstain themselves will support his hypothesis.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Compare and contrast the trickle-down, trickle-up, and trickle-across theories.
Q4) Suppose that it became fashionable to be overweight. How would the four models of fashion (derived from the behavioral science perspective of fashion) explain how the fashion norm would change from being underweight to being overweight?
Q5) Explain why opinion leaders are difficult to identify.
Q6) Explain several of the basic characteristics of social networks. Provide an example.
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