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Consumer Behavior 101 Practice Test: Consumer Attitude Formation and Change
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Consumer attitudes are a combination of beliefs, emotions, and behavioral intentions about a product or service. They are a key driver of purchasing behavior.  Many factors influence consumer attitudes, including: Personal values and beliefs Social influences Direct experience Marketing and advertising Age Physical, mental, and emotional growth Needs, values, expectations, resources Cultural, traditional, and social conventions Habits Peer groups  Consumers learn attitudes from a variety of sources, including: Word of mouth.  Marketers try to understand and influence their target... Show more
Consumer Behavior 101 Practice Test: Consumer Attitude Formation and Change
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1. According to the attitude-toward-the-ad model, the consumer forms various feelings and judgments as a result of exposure to an ad. If the consumer likes the ad, ________.
2. Which of the following is true of attitudes and their relationship with behavior?
3. The shift from no attitude to an attitude is a result of ________.
4. Which of the following is true of consumer brand beliefs in the context of changing consumer attitudes?
5. Direct-marketing efforts have an excellent chance of favorably influencing target consumers' attitudes because the products and services offered and the promotional messages conveyed are very carefully designed to address the individual segments' needs and concerns.
6. ________ involve both the beliefs that the consumer attributes to relevant others, such as friends and parents, and the consumer's motivation to comply with the beliefs held by those relevant others.
7. According to ________, discomfort occurs when a consumer holds conflicting thoughts about a belief or an attitude object.
8. The appeal of the attitude-toward-behavior model is that it allows researchers to understand consumers' subjective norms and the factors that form them.
9. Marketers can help consumers relieve their dissonance by including messages in their advertising specifically aimed at reinforcing consumers' decisions by complimenting their wisdom, offering stronger guarantees or warranties, increasing the number and effectiveness of its services, or providing detailed brochures on how to use its products correctly.
10. Microsoft wants to measure public attitudes toward the default media-playing software included in its Windows operating system. Which of the following types of multiattribute attitude models would be most appropriate for Microsoft to use?
11. When consumers give themselves credit for the outcome of a behavior, they are engaging in ________.
12. Consumers frequently resist evidence that challenges a strongly held attitude or belief and tend to interpret any ambiguous information in ways that reinforce their preexisting attitudes.
13. Emotionally charged states can enhance or amplify positive or negative experiences and impact later recollections of such experiences and future behavior.
14. In a consumer behavior context, ________ are learned predispositions to behave in a consistently favorable or unfavorable way with respect to a given object.
15. When a consumer's motivation or assessment skills are low, learning and attitude change tend to occur via the ________ to persuasion.
16. ________ suggests that attitudes develop as consumers look at and make judgments about their own behavior.
17. The ________ is designed to account for cases in which the action or outcome is desired but not certain, and reflects the consumer's attempts to consume, whether or not they are successful.
18. Responding positively to an intention to buy question with regard to a brand will increase the likelihood of that consumer purchasing the brand.
19. If an undergraduate student was considering getting a tattoo and stopped to ask herself what her parents would think of such behavior, such a reflection would constitute her ________.
20. Individuals who try a brand without any inducements or individuals who buy a brand repeatedly are more likely to consider that they buy the brand because they like it, rather than because it was free or on sale.
21. Roy is looking to buy a new HDTV set. He knows from friends that LCD set screens reflect less light than plasma set screens, but that LCD sets are also more subject to blurring than plasma sets. This is an example of the ________ component of his attitude toward HDTVs.
22. If a consumer segment generally holds a positive attitude toward owning the latest designer jeans, then that segment's attitude toward new brands of designer jeans are likely to reflect that orientation. This is an example of the ________ of attitude.
23. Attitudes toward companies can be altered by communicating the civic and public acts that the companies sponsor and letting the public know about the good they are trying to do, but attitudes toward the company's products can only be altered through the products themselves.
24. According to the principle of ________, consumers are likely to accept credit personally for success and to attribute failure to others or to outside events.
25. When cognitive dissonance occurs after the purchase it is called postpurchase dissonance.