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CONSUMER BEHAVIOR
3rd Year, Bachelor in Marketing
1st semester, 2021
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The process of deciding what to buy starts when a need that can
be satisfied through consumption becomes strong enough to
stimulate a person.
4- Individual Development
With an individual’s mental development and change in outlook he may recognize
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6- Promotional Activities
By promotional activities marketers try to trigger drives in consumers. Through different
promotional activities, marketers try to create discrepancy between actual and desired
states of consumers. Such a situation will trigger problem recognition in
consumers.
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b- Problem
recognition and
marketing strategy
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A consumer, in evaluating the products in his evoked set, that results from
information search, establishes a set of criteria against which he compares
characteristics of different alternatives.
How many evaluative criteria a consumer will use? what different types of
criteria he will consider? and the importance he will place on each of them
depends on the consumer himself and the product under consideration
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A consumer, in evaluating the products in his evoked set, that results from
information search, establishes a set of criteria against which he compares
characteristics of different alternatives.
How many evaluative criteria a consumer will use? what different types of
criteria he will consider? and the importance he will place on each of them
depends on the consumer himself and the product under consideration
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After assuming all the criteria for the decision the customers now
decide on what they will purchase and where.
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COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
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COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
Examples:
• Knowing that smoking is harmful (first cognition) while
liking to smoke (second cognition). The cognitive
dissonance theory’s conditions were met because
those cognitions are dissonant
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
Consumer can reduce cognitive dissonance by:
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COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
Marketers can reduce cognitive dissonance by:
• Undertaking program to provide information to
consumers to reinforce their decisions, which may
make them feel good about the purchases they made.