Strategic Marketing
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Course Introduction
Strategic Marketing explores the process of developing and implementing comprehensive marketing strategies that align with organizational goals to create sustainable competitive advantage. This course covers market analysis, segmentation, targeting, and positioning, along with strategy formulation for product, pricing, promotion, and distribution. Students will examine how to assess market opportunities, analyze consumer behavior, and leverage data-driven insights to make informed decisions. Emphasis is placed on adapting marketing strategies in dynamic global environments, addressing challenges such as digital transformation, brand management, and ethical considerations. Through case studies and real-world applications, learners gain practical skills in crafting effective marketing plans that drive business growth.
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Consumer Behavior 10th Edition by Michael R. Solomon
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Chapter 1: Buying, Having, and Being
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Q1) Another term for positivism is ________.
A) interpretivism
B) pluralism
C) modernism
D) postmodernism
Answer: C
Q2) Demographics refer to aspects of a person's lifestyle and personality.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) A(n) ________ is a person who identifies a need or desire, makes a purchase, and then disposes of a product.
A) marketer
B) consumer
C) influencer
D) content generator
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Perception
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Q1) Blind taste tests in the 1980s showed that most Coke drinkers preferred a cola that was sweeter than the current product. When Coca-Cola attempted to make its product sweeter, brand loyal customers revolted and demanded the old product be returned. Explain how Coca-Cola marketers could have used the principles of psychophysics to introduce the new coke without creating these problems.
Answer: If the sweetness of the cola was increased by less than a j.n.d. in stages over time, the final product would be much sweeter without most brand loyal customers recognizing the change.
Q2) When we ________ products, we evaluate them using schemas we typically apply to classify people.
A) prime
B) filter
C) imprint
D) anthropomorphize
Answer: D
Q3) Interpretation is the last stage of the perceptual process.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Learning and Memory
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Q1) Almost any technique that increases the novelty of a stimulus also improves recall of the stimulus. This result is called the ________.
A) highlighting effect
B) von Restorff Effect
C) spacing effect
D) halo effect
Answer: B
Q2) Episodic memories are likely to become part of a person's long-term memory.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Many marketers use "the good old days" as a common theme in promotional messages. This is a strategy of focusing on ________.
A) the highlighting effect
B) the halo effect
C) nostalgia
D) memory spikes
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Motivation and Global Values
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Q1) Drive theory focuses on psychological needs that produce unpleasant states of arousal (e.g., your feelings are hurt when someone is critical of your appearance).
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 behavioral aspects of reinforcement learning.
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Chapter 5: The Self
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Q1) When the Casa Sanchez restaurant in San Francisco gives free lunches for life to anyone who gets its logo tattooed on his or her body, the restaurant is using identity marketing.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ________ is the promotional strategy that involves select consumers altering some aspects of their selves to advertise for a branded product.
A) Body cathexis
B) Identity marketing
C) Impression management
D) Self extension
Q3) The extended self is comprised of ________.
A) our actual and ideal selves
B) our actual and virtual selves
C) external objects we consider a part of us
D) our body image and self-esteem
Q4) Social comparison is a basic human tendency.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain how the concept of self-esteem is used in advertising.
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Chapter 6: Personality and Psychographics
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Q1) Explain the basic premise of trait theory. What are the problems in using trait theory for consumer research?
Q2) The ego is the referee in the fight between temptation and virtue.
A)True
B)False
Q3) List the various ways that psychographic segmentation can be used.
Q4) Janice feels that she makes many of her decisions based on the fact that she is an introvert. Introversion seems to affect her taste in clothes, outside activities, and even her independence. Janice is making consumption decisions based on a personality theory called trait theory.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Our culture's current fascination with novels and movies such as the Harry Potter Series and The Lord of the Rings, in which the magician and the patriarch triumph over the sorcerer and the dictator, emphasizes the importance of ________.
A) consumption motives
B) archetypes
C) extroversion overcoming introversion
D) the superego overcoming the id
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Chapter 7: Attitudes and Persuasion
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Q1) In the standard learning hierarchy model, attitude is based on behavioral learning processes.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Why should marketers be aware of consumers' cognitive consistency and cognitive dissonance? How can dissonance be reduced? Use the postpurchase behavior of a customer as an example.
Q3) One of the key characteristics of a source is credibility. What is source credibility and how can it affect attitude change?
Q4) An anti-smoking campaign showed autopsies of people who have died of lung cancer. The campaign seemed to have no effect on the rate that teenagers took up smoking. Why?
Q5) The fine line between familiarity and boredom has been explained by the ________, which proposes that two separate psychological processes are operating when a person is repeatedly exposed to an ad.
A) balance theory
B) repetition theory
C) halo theory
D) two-factor theory
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Chapter 8: Decision Making
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Q1) Pepsi A.M. was positioned as a coffee substitute. In one test market, Pepsi A.M. was introduced onto a university campus. It was both an immense hit and a total failure. The product always sold out of the vending machines, but the consumption of coffee stayed the same and the sale of other Pepsi products declined. In terms of levels of categorization, discuss what created the problem in the test market.
Q2) Which of the following perspectives on consumer decision making is most closely associated with the economics of information approach to the search process, assuming that consumers collect just as much data as needed to make an informed decision?
A) experiential perspective
B) rational perspective
C) constructive perspective
D) behavioral influence perspective
Q3) ________ are dimensions used to judge the merits of competing options.
A) Evoked sets
B) Evaluative criteria
C) Levels of abstraction
D) Category exemplars
Q4) List and define the five stages of the consumer decision-making process.
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Chapter 9: Buying and Disposing
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Q1) Two dimensions of emotional states determine if a shopper will react positively or negatively to a consumption environment. These two dimensions are best described as being ________.
A) pleasure and pain
B) avoidance and satisfaction
C) avoidance and arousal
D) pleasure and arousal
Q2) A retailer using a marketscape theme gives consumers the opportunity to enter into a world of fantasy (such as one where the person becomes a virtual hunter, race car driver, or fashion model) as they shop.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The "thrill of the hunt" is a hedonic shopping motive.
A)True
B)False
Q4) When a retail customer senses a sudden urge that simply can't be ignored, the customer is experiencing unplanned buying.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Organizational and Household Decision Making
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Q1) Women who live what has been termed the juggling lifestyle struggle with compromises between conflicting cultural ideals of motherhood and professionalism.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The 1990 Children's Television Act restored all of the restrictions on television advertising to children that were originally put in place by the Federal Trade Commission in the 1970s.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Many companies are finding that it's both cost efficient and productive to call on outsiders from around the world to solve problems their own researchers can't handle. The Internet provides a great mechanism for assembling the solutions. A new term to describe this strategy is ________.
A) market predicting
B) B2B e-commerce
C) problem sourcing
D) crowdsourcing
Q4) Define consumer socialization and discuss sources of influence on children.
Q5) Explain and characterize the family life cycle concept.
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Chapter 11: Groups and Social Media
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Q1) Consumers who are confident in themselves and do not seek peer approval for their behaviors are said to be ________.
A) normative
B) role-relaxed
C) deindividuated
D) insulated
Q2) Mindi heard that rubbing olive oil on her feet would help her to avoid the painful cracks that sometimes appear on her heels. Mindi is no foot expert, but she is willing to try this remedy on the off-chance that it might work. Which of the following would best explain Mindi's response to word-of-mouth information?
A) She is coerced into action.
B) She is totally dependent on word-of-mouth information.
C) She is being influenced by social persuasion theory.
D) She is unfamiliar with the product and is therefore likely to be persuaded by word-of-mouth information.
Q3) Word-of-mouth has a more powerful effect on consumers than paid advertising does.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Social Class and Lifestyles
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Q1) A co-branding strategy was being utilized when the Taco Bell Chihuahua showed up in a commercial for Geico insurance.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Harry was the lead singer in a band that hit it big. For his birthday, Harry had two hundred friends flown in chartered jets to a private island in the South Pacific. They ate the most expensive food, and every morning the bungalows were burned to the ground and rebuilt for the next night. Harry's party is a good example of ________.
A) parody display
B) social mobility
C) ascribed status
D) conspicuous consumption
Q3) A contemporary view of the American social class structure is presented in the text. Identify each of the major categories and supply a brief comment that characterizes each one.
Q4) For the most part, many marketers fail to use social-class information as effectively as they could. List five reasons why this failure might occur. Be specific.
Q5) Explain the concept of social mobility and its various forms.
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Chapter 13: Subcultures
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT one of the four conflicts common to all teens identified by Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency?
A) growth versus restriction
B) autonomy versus belonging
C) idealism versus pragmatism
D) narcissism versus intimacy
Q2) Americans over age 50 are the focus of almost 50 percent of advertising.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Microcultures of young women in Japan start many trends that eventually make their way around the world.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The largest of the "Big Three" American subcultures is the African-American subculture.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Gen Yers are the most diverse generation in American history.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Culture
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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
Q2) The story goes that George Washington (as a small child) cut down his father's cherry tree with a hatchet. When asked who might have committed this act (even though young Washington was afraid of punishment for the act), George replied, "I cannot tell a lie; I cut down the cherry tree." This story has taken on mythical proportions in the United States. Which of the following functions does this myth best match?
A) metaphysical
B) cosmological
C) psychological
D) anthropological
Q3) Because Stephanie is an innovator with computer products, marketers should assume that she is also an innovator with clothing styles.
A)True
B)False
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