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Rule of thumb
Quick Inference
Brand Name
Past Experience
Recommendation
Types:
Availability : Decision on the basis of most commonly available
alternative
Representatives: Comparing information to our mental prototypes
Base-Rate: Decision based on probability
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Characteristics of Systematic Vs. Heuristics
Information search
SYSTEMETIC HEURISTICS
Organized Ad Hoc
Prolonged Quick
Comprehensive Patchy
Decision Making Process
Process - Need Recognition
Usually occurs when consumer has a
“problem”
Need recognition styles
Actual state
Desired state
How Problem Recognition Occurs?
• A Problem Stimulus
Types of Stimuli • A Solution Stimulus
• Internal Stimuli
Sources of • External Stimuli
Stimuli
Opportunity Recognition
• Stock Depletion
• Life-stage Changes
Compensatory
Non-compensatory
Conjunctive Decision Rule
Disjunctive Decision Rule
Lexicographic Rule
A type of consumer
decision rule by
which positive
Non-
evaluation of a brand
compensatory
attribute does not
Decision
Rules compensate for a
negative evaluation of
the same brand on
some other attribute.
Non Compensatory decision rules
A type of consumer decision rule by which positive
evaluation of a brand attribute does not compensate for a
negative evaluation of the same brand on some other
attribute.
Compensatory rule I selected the netbook that came out best when I
balanced the good ratings against the bad ratings
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Output of Consumer Decision Making
Purchase behavior
Trial purchases
Repeat purchases
Long-term commitment