Academic Year : 2019-2020 Semester: IV-Sem Subject : Consumer Behaviour Subject Code: 16MB E115 (M) Faculty : Prof.P.Kameswara Rao No. of periods: 36 Commencement of Instruction : 16-12-19 Date of I Mid Exam : II mid exam: Classes lost due to Holidays and Mid-Sessional Exams Day& Date Occasion Units Topic No. of cumulative periods Unit –I: Introduction, Definition, Evolution, Contemporary Dimensions of Consumer Behaviour 1 2 CB Research Process, Buyers and Users 1 3 Development of Marketing Concept, Consumer Behaviour and its Applications in 1 4 Marketing Concepts of motivation and personality, perception and their marketing implications. 1 5 Unit –II: Concept of learning, important aspects of learning Process 1+1 7 Concepts of conditioning Important aspects of information processing theory 1+1 9 Encoding and information retention, Retrieval of Information, Split – brain theory. 1+1 11 Unit –III: Social and cultural settings- Culture, subculture and Cross cultural Marketing practices 1+1 13 Family life cycle-1,2,3 and Reference groups Personality- Theories, Life style Influences 1+1 15 AIO and VALS Framework. Ethno Centrism 1+1 17 Unit-IV: Meaning of Decision Making, Different views 1+1 19 Buying Motives, Types of decision making process in buying 1+1 21 Consumer Information processing- Information search, Evaluation of alternatives 1+1 23 Purchasing Process, Post purchase behaviour 1+1 25 Consumer action and disposable of products 1+1 27 Unit-V: Models of Consumer Decision making Process 1 28 Contemporary models, Generic Model of Consumer Behaviour 1 29 Howard Sheth Model 1 30 Engel Blackwell and Rao-Lilien model 1+1 32 Role of Consumerism 1+1 34 1+1 36