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  • A. core consumer behavior
  • B. core values
  • C. multitasking
  • D. time constrained

Explanation: Core values are deeply held beliefs that guide a person's attitudes, choices, and behaviour over time.

Correct answer: core values
  • A. expectancy elaboration model
  • B. value elaboration model
  • C. elaboration likelihood model
  • D. value likelihood model

Explanation: The elaboration likelihood model explains persuasion through a central route for high involvement and a peripheral route for low…

Correct answer: elaboration likelihood model
  • A. ideal self-concept
  • B. actual self-concept
  • C. self-concept
  • D. self-monitors

Explanation: Self-concept is a person's view of who they are, including how they believe other people see them.

Correct answer: self-concept
  • A. attribute uncertainty
  • B. customer self-confidence
  • C. money at stake
  • D. all of the above

Explanation: Perceived risk increases when product attributes are uncertain, the buyer lacks confidence, or more money is at stake.

Correct answer: all of the above
  • A. selective retention
  • B. selective attention
  • C. selective distortion
  • D. prepared distortion

Explanation: Selective attention is the allocation of limited mental capacity to some environmental stimuli while ignoring others.

Correct answer: selective attention
  • A. attitudes of others
  • B. anticipated factors
  • C. unanticipated situational factors
  • D. conjunctive situational factors

Explanation: A person's motivation to comply with others depends on those people's attitudes or expectations, making attitudes of others the relevant…

Correct answer: attitudes of others
  • A. demand
  • B. need
  • C. motive
  • D. behaviors

Explanation: A need becomes a motive when it reaches sufficient intensity to drive a person toward action.

Correct answer: motive
  • A. linking product to engaging issue
  • B. linking product to personal situation
  • C. adding an important feature
  • D. triggering emotions to personal values

Explanation: Introducing the Soft White version gave the product an added feature that increased consumer interest and involvement.

Correct answer: adding an important feature
  • A. selective attention
  • B. selective noticing
  • C. selective shopping
  • D. selective ad watching

Explanation: Selective attention occurs when consumers focus on advertisements or messages that relate to their current needs.

Correct answer: selective attention
  • A. drive
  • B. motivation
  • C. learning
  • D. cues

Explanation: Cues are minor environmental or product-related stimuli that guide when and where a learned response occurs.

Correct answer: cues
  • A. selective shopping
  • B. selective ad watching
  • C. selective attention
  • D. selective noticing

Explanation: Selective attention makes consumers notice stimuli that stand out or matter to them, such as an unusual change in price.

Correct answer: selective attention
  • A. product consumption rate
  • B. product life cycle
  • C. product age
  • D. seller's decision

Explanation: Sales frequency indicates how often a product is purchased or used, which reflects its product consumption rate.

Correct answer: product consumption rate
  • A. functional risk
  • B. financial risk
  • C. attitude risk
  • D. factor risk

Explanation: Financial risk is the concern that the product will not provide value equal to the money paid for it.

Correct answer: financial risk
  • A. integrate loss
  • B. segregate loss
  • C. segregate gains
  • D. integrate gains

Explanation: Integrating a small loss with a larger purchase makes the additional cost feel less noticeable or painful.

Correct answer: integrate loss
  • A. membership groups
  • B. primary groups
  • C. secondary groups
  • D. both A and B

Explanation: Membership groups directly influence a person because the individual belongs to them, and primary groups are a close type of membership…

Correct answer: both A and B
  • A. high probabilities
  • B. low probabilities
  • C. integrate probabilities
  • D. segregate probabilities

Explanation: People commonly overweight events with a low probability, such as an unlikely product failure, even though its objective chance is small.

Correct answer: low probabilities
  • A. personal sources
  • B. commercial sources
  • C. public sources
  • D. experimental sources

Explanation: Examining, handling, or using a product gives the buyer direct experience, so the information comes from an experimental source.

Correct answer: experimental sources
  • A. self-values
  • B. self-motivation
  • C. personality
  • D. self-goals

Explanation: Sociability, adaptability, and defensiveness describe relatively stable ways a person responds to situations, which are traits of…

Correct answer: personality
  • A. membership behavior
  • B. market behavior
  • C. database behavior
  • D. consumer behavior

Explanation: Consumer behavior examines how individuals, groups, and organizations select, buy, use, and dispose of goods and services to satisfy…

Correct answer: consumer behavior
  • A. market penetration
  • B. market division
  • C. market partitioning
  • D. customer classification

Explanation: Market partitioning divides a broad market into distinct competitive parts or submarkets so that the nature and intensity of competition…

Correct answer: market partitioning