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MKT201 – Buyer Behavior
Chapter 1
Review Questions
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1. If a marketer was to segment a
population by age and gender, the
marketer would be utilizing a category
of information called ________.
a.
b.
c.
d.
demographics
psychographics
roles
lifestyle
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2. If a consumer researcher were to study
consumers from the perspective of a
person's lifestyle and personality, the
researcher would be studying a category
called ________.
a.
b.
c.
d.
demographics
psychographics
character
roles
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3. The study of the processes involved when
individuals or groups select, purchase, use,
or dispose of products, services, and ideas
is called ________.
a.
b.
c.
d.
lifestyle marketing
role marketing
consumer behavior
marketing research
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4. It is often necessary to identify groups of
consumers who are similar to one another
in one or more ways. The process of doing
this is called ________.
a.
b.
c.
d.
differentiation
demographic analysis
cultural processing
market segmentation
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5. One of the fundamental premises of the modern
field of consumer behavior is that people often
buy products not for what they do, but for
________.
a. how other people see them
b. their cost
c. irrational reasons
d. what they mean
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6. A ________ allows companies to promote the
same product in several countries at once and get
approximately the same reaction from potential
customers.
a. global consumer culture
b. closed tariff system
c. global ethic
d. global monetary system
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7. There is a dark side to consumer behavior. Which
of the following is not an aspect of this dark side?
a. Consumer terrorism
b. Addictive consumption
c. Lifestyle consumption
d. Compulsive consumption
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8. Car manufacturers are currently putting cars on
the market that are similar to popular cars of the
past. The Volkswagen Beetle is an example. The
manufacturers have discovered the power of the
consumption of meaning. They are primarily
concerned with which combination of meaning?
a. Self-concept attachment: nostalgic attachment
b. Self-concept attachment: interdependence
c. Self-concept attachment: love
d. Nostalgic attachment: love
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9.
Social critics have maintained that marketing leads people
to buy products they do not want and do not need.
However, the failure rate of new products that are heavily
marketed is reportedly as high as 80 percent. How can
these two seemingly opposite views of marketing be
reconciled?
a.
b.
c.
d.
The social critics are simply wrong. People are not influenced by
marketing.
Consumers are highly influenced by marketing, but some products
simply fail anyway.
Marketing does have an influence on consumers, but marketers simply
do not know enough about people to manipulate them any way they
please.
Purchase is a function of marketing, but business failure is unrelated to
marketing.
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10. The fact that bribery in business is acceptable in
some countries but not in others demonstrates
that ________.
a. ethics are relative to the situation in which business
persons find themselves
b. cultural jamming has been successfully practiced in some
countries
c. ethics are incompatible with social marketing
d. practices can be unethical without being illegal
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Essay Questions:
1. What is popular culture, and how does this concept relate to
marketing and consumer behavior?
Popular culture, consisting of the music, movies, sports, books, celebrities,
and other forms of entertainment consumed by the mass market, is
both a product of and an inspiration for marketers. Our lives are also
affected in more far-reaching ways, ranging from how we
acknowledge cultural events such as marriage, death, or holidays to
how we view social issues such as air pollution, gambling, and
addictions.
2.
Define social marketing and give an example of this technique.
Social marketing uses marketing techniques normally employed to sell
beer or detergent to encourage positive behaviors such as increased
literacy and to discourage negative activities such as drunk driving.
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