Consumer Decision Making
Chapter 16
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Decision : The selection of an option from two or more alternative choices.
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Levels of Consumer Decision Making :
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Extensive Problem Solving
Consumer have no estabilished criteria for evaluating a product category or specific brands in that category or have not narrowed the number of brands they will consider to a small, manageable subset.
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Limited Problem Solving
Consumer already have estabilished the basic criteria for evaluating the product category and the various brands in the category.
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Routinized Response Behavior
Consumer have some experience with the product category and a well estabilished set of the criteria with wich to evaluate the brands they are considering.
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Models of Consumer : Four Views of Consumer Decision Making :
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An Economic View
To behave rationally in the economic sense, a consumer would have to :
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Be aware of all available products alternatives.
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Be capable of correctly ranking each alternatives in terms of its benefits and disadvantages.
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Be able to identify one best alternative.
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A Passive View
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Consumer are perceived as impulsive and irrational purchasers, ready to yield to the aims and arms marketers.
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Fails to recognize that the consumers plays an equal, if not dominant, role in many buying situations.
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A Cognitive View
– Consumers are viewed as informational processors.
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An Emotional View
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Moods are also important to decision making because it impacts on when consumers shop, where they shop, and whether they shop alone or with others.
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A Model of Consumer Decision Making
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Input
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Marketing Inputs
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Sociocultural Inputs
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Process
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Need Recognition : occur when consumer is faced with a “problem”.
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Prepurchase Search : begins when a consumer perceives a need that might be satisfied by the purchase and consumption of a product.
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Evaluation of Alternatives :
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Evoked Set : refers to the specific brands a consumer consider in making a purchase within a particular product category.
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Inept Set : which consist of brands the consumer excludes from purchase consideration because they are felt to be unacceptable.
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Inert Set : which cocsist of brands the consumer is indifferent toward because they are perceived as not having any particular advantages.
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Criteria used for evaluating brands
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Consumer decision rules : often referred to as heuristics, decision strategies, and information-processing strategies, are procedures used by consumer to facilitate brand choices.
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Compensatory : a consumer evaluates brands
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