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CHAPTER 7
Consumer Buying Behavior
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Purpose and Perspective IRM, p. 121
Lecture Outline IRM, p. 122
Discussion Starters IRM, p. 130
Class Exercise IRM, p. 132
Semester Project IRM, p. 135
Answers to Developing Your Marketing Plan IRM, p. 136
Answers to Discussion and Review Questions IRM, p. 137
Comments on the Cases IRM, p. 140
Video Case 7.1 IRM, p. 140
Case 7.2 IRM, p. 141
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LECTURE OUTLINE
I. Consumer Buying Behavior
A. Buying behavior is the decision processes and acts of people involved in buying and using
products.
B. Consumer buying behavior refers to the buying behavior of ultimate consumers—those who
purchase products for personal use and not for business purposes.
C. Understanding buying behavior requires knowledge of the consumption process and
consumers’ perceptions of product utility.
II. Consumer Buying Decision Process
A. The consumer buying decision process is a five-stage purchase decision process which
includes problem recognition, information search, evaluation of alternatives, purchase, and
post-purchase evaluation (see figure 7.1).
1. The actual act of purchase is only one stage in the process and is not the first stage.
2. Not all decision processes, once initiated, lead to an ultimate purchase; the individual
may terminate the process at any stage.
3. Not all consumer buying decisions include all five stages.
B. Problem Recognition
1. This stage occurs when a buyer becomes aware of a difference between a desired state
and an actual condition.
2. Recognition speed can be slow or fast.
3. An individual may never become aware of the problem or need. Marketers may use sales
personnel, advertising, and packaging to trigger recognition of needs or problems.
C. Information Search
1. After the consumer becomes aware of the problem or need, he or she searches for
information about products that will help resolve the problem or satisfy the need.
2. There are two aspects to an information search:
a. In the internal search, buyers first search their memories for information about
products that might solve the problem.
b. In the external search, buyers seek information from outside sources.
(1) An external search occurs if buyers cannot retrieve enough information from their
memories for a decision.
(2) Buyers seek information from friends, relatives, public sources, such as
government reports or publications, or marketer-dominated sources of
information, such as salespeople, advertising, websites, package labeling, and in -
store demonstrations and displays. The Internet has become a major information
source.
3. Repetition, a technique well known to advertisers, increases consumers’ learning.
Repetition eventually may cause wear-out, meaning consumers pay less attention to the
commercial and respond to it less favorably than they did at first.
D. Evaluation of Alternatives
1. A successful information search within a product category yields a consideration set (or
an evoked set), which is a group of brands that the buyer views as possible alternatives.
a. The consumer establishes a set of evaluative criteria, which are objective and
subjective characteristics that are important to him or her.
b. The consumer uses these criteria to rate and rank brands in the consideration set.
2. Marketers can influence consumers’ evaluations by “framing” the alternatives—that is,
by the manner in which they describe the alternatives and attributes.
E. Purchase
1. Purchase selection is based on the outcome of the evaluation stage and other dimensions.
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2. Product availability, seller choice, and terms of sale may influence the final product
selection.
3. The buyer may choose to terminate the buying decision process, in which case no
purchase will be made.
F. Postpurchase Evaluation
1. After purchase, the buyer begins to evaluate the product to ascertain if the actual
performance meets expected levels.
2. Evaluation is based on many of the same criteria used when evaluating alternatives.
3. Cognitive dissonance is a buyer’s doubts that arise shortly after a purchase about
whether it was the right decision.
III. Types of Consumer Decision Making and Level of Involvement
A. To acquire and maintain products that satisfy their current and future needs, consumers
engage in different types of problem-solving processes depending on the nature of the
products involved. The amount of effort, both mental and physical, that buyers expend in
solving problems also varies considerably.
B. A major determinant of the type of problem-solving process employed depends on the
customer’s level of involvement, the degree of interest in a product, and the importance the
individual places on that product.
1. High-involvement products tend to be those that are visible to others (e.g., clothing,
furniture, or automobiles) and expensive, as well as issues of high importance, such as
health care.
2. Low-involvement products tend to be less expensive and have less associated social risk,
such as many grocery items.
3. Enduring involvement is a person’s ongoing and long-term interest in a product or
product category.
4. Situational involvement is temporary and dynamic, and results from a particular set of
circumstances, such as the need to buy a new car after being involved in an accident.
5. Consumer involvement may be attached to product categories (e.g., sports), loyalty to a
specific brand, interest in a specific advertisement (e.g., a funny commercial) or a
medium (such as a particular television show), or to certain decisions and behaviors (e.g.,
a love of shopping).
C. Involvement level and other factors affect a person’s selection of one of three types of
consumer decision making (see Table 7.1).
1. Consumers use routinized response behavior when they purchase products with little
search-and-decision effort; it is used for low-priced, frequently-purchased products.
2. Consumers use limited decision making when they purchase products occasionally or
need information about unfamiliar brands in a familiar product category; it requires a
moderate amount of time for information gathering and deliberation.
3. Consumers use extended problem solving to buy unfamiliar, expensive, or infrequently
purchased products, such as cars, homes, and college educations; buyers use many
criteria to evaluate brands and spend time searching for information and deciding on the
purchase.
D. Purchase of a particular product does not always elicit the same type of decision making; the
process may be different the first time consumers purchase a product, when they switch
brands, or when the purchase become routine.
E. Impulse buying, in contrast, is an unplanned buying behavior involving a powerful urge to
immediately buy something.
IV. Situational Influences on the Buying Decision Process
A. Situational influences are factors that result from circumstances, time, and location that
affect the consumer buying decision process.
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B. They can influence a consumer’s actions in any stage of the buying process, and may
shorten, lengthen, or terminate the buying process.
C. Situational factors can be divided into five categories:
1. Physical surroundings include location, store atmosphere, aromas, sounds, lighting,
weather, and other factors in the physical environment in which the decision process
occurs.
2. Social surroundings include characteristics and interactions of others who are present
during a purchase decision or who may be present when the product is used or consumed
(e.g. friends, relatives, or salespeople), as well as conditions during the shopping
environment (e.g. an overcrowded store may cause the buyer to terminate the buying
decision process).
3. The time dimension influences the buying decision process in several ways, such as the
amount of time required to become knowledgeable about a product, to search for it, and
to buy and use it.
a. Time plays a role as the buyer considers the possible frequency of product use, the
length of time required to use the product, and the length of the overall product life.
b. Other time dimensions influence purchases, including time of day, day of the week or
month, seasons, and holidays.
c. The amount of time pressure a consumer is under affects how much time is devoted
to purchase decisions. A customer under severe time constraints is likely either to
make a quick purchase decision or to delay a decision.
4. The reason for the purchase raises the questions of what the product purchase should
accomplish and for whom. For example, people who are buying a gift may buy a different
product from one they would buy for themselves.
5. The buyer’s momentary moods or conditions (e.g., fatigue, illness, having cash) may
have a bearing on the consumer buying decision process. Any of these moods or
conditions can affect a person’s ability and desire to search for information, receive
information, or seek and evaluate alternatives. They can also significantly influence a
consumer’s post-purchase evaluation.
V. Psychological Influences on the Buying Decision Process
A. Psychological influences are those which operate in part to determine people’s general
behavior and thus influence their behavior as consumers. Psychological factors are internal,
but are affected by outside social forces.
B. Perception
1. Perception is the process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting information inputs to
produce meaning.
2. Information inputs are sensations received through sight, taste, hearing, smell, and
touch.
3. Perception is highly complex, leading markets to increasingly take a multi -sensory
approach.
4. Perception is a three-step process:
a. Although we receive numerous pieces of information at once, only a few reach our
awareness through a process called selective exposure. Individuals select which
inputs reach awareness based on their current set of needs.
(1) Selective distortion is changing or twisting currently received information; it
occurs when a person receives information inconsistent with personal feelings or
beliefs.
(2) In selective retention, a person remembers information inputs that support
personal feelings and beliefs and forgets inputs that do not.
b. During perceptual organization, information inputs that reach awareness must be
organized by the brain to produce meaning.
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(1) An individual mentally organizes and integrate new information with what is
already stored in memory.
(2) Closure is an organizational method in which a person mentally fills in
information gaps to make a pattern or statement. Some marketers use incomplete
information in advertisements to take advantage of this process.
c. Interpretation is the assignment of meaning to what has been organized. A person
bases interpretation on what he or she expects or what is familiar.
5. Marketers cannot control buyers’ perceptions, but they try to influence them through
information. This approach is problematic.
a. A consumer’s perceptual process may operate so that a seller’s information never
reaches awareness.
b. A buyer may receive a seller’s information but perceives it differently than intended.
c. A buyer may perceive information inputs to be inconsistent with prior beliefs and
therefore are likely to forget the information quickly (selective retention).
C. Motives
1. A motive is an internal energizing force which directs a person’s behavior toward
satisfying needs or achieving goals.
a. A buyer’s actions are affected by a set of motives, and some are stronger than others.
b. Motives affect the direction and intensity of behavior.
2. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs organizes human needs into five levels (see Figure 7.2).
Humans try to satisfy these needs starting with the most basic. Once needs at one level
are met, humans move on to fulfilling needs at the next level:
a. At the most basic level “physiological needs,” requirements for survival such as food,
water, sex, clothing, and shelter.
b. At the next level are “safety needs,” which include security and freedom from
physical and emotional pain and suffering.
c. Next are “social needs,” the human requirements for love and affection and a sense of
belonging.
d. At the level of “esteem needs,” people require respect and recognition from others as
well as self-esteem, a sense of one’s own worth.
e. At the top of the hierarchy are “self-actualization needs,” which refer to people’s
need to grow and develop and to become all they are capable of becoming.
3. Patronage motives are motives such as price, service, or friendly salespeople, which
influence where a person purchases products on a regular basis.
D. Learning
1. Learning refers to changes in an individual’s thought processes and behaviors caused by
information and experience.
2. The learning process is strongly influenced by the consequences of an individual’s
behavior; behaviors with satisfying results tend to be repeated.
3. Inexperienced buyers may use different, more simplistic, types of information than
experienced shoppers familiar with the product and purchase situation.
4. Marketers help customers learn about their products by helping them gain experience
with them, perhaps through free samples, in-store demonstrations, and test drives.
5. Consumers learn about products indirectly through information from salespeople, friends,
relatives, and advertisements.
E. Attitudes
1. An attitude is an individual’s enduring evaluation of, feelings about, and behavioral
tendencies toward a tangible or intangible object or idea.
2. Attitudes remain generally stable in the short term, but they can change over time.
3. An attitude consists of three major components:
a. cognitive (knowledge and information about an object or idea)
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United States into 66 distinct groups based on numerous variables such as education,
income, technology use, employment, and social groups.
VI. Social Influences on the Buying Decision Process
A. Social influences are the forces other people exert on one’s buying behavior (see Figure 7.1).
B. Roles
1. Every person occupies a position within groups, organizations, and institutions.
2. A role is a set of actions and activities an individual in a particular position is supposed
to perform based on the expectations of both the individual and surrounding persons.
3. Each individual has many roles and each role affects both general behavior and buying
behavior.
C. Family Influences
1. An individual’s family roles directly influence their buying behavior.
2. Consumer socialization is the process through which a person acquires the knowledge
and skills to function as a consumer.
3. The extent to which different family members take part in family decision making varies
between families and product categories. Traditional family decision making processes
are divided into four categories: autonomic, husband dominant, wife dominant, and
syncratic (see Table 7.2).
4. The family life cycle stage affects individual and joint needs of family members.
5. Within a household, an individual may perform one or more buying-decision roles.
a. The gatekeeper is the household member who collects and controls information—
price and quality comparisons, locations of sellers, and assessment of which brand
best suits the family’s needs.
b. The influencer is a family member who expresses his or her opinions and tries to
influence buying decisions.
c. The decider is a member who makes the buying choice.
d. The buyer is a member who actually makes the purchase.
e. The user is any household member who consumes or uses the product.
D. Reference Groups
1. A reference group is any group—large or small—that positively or negatively affects a
person’s values, attitudes, or behaviors.
2. There are three major types of reference groups: membership, aspirational, and
dissociative.
a. A membership reference group is one to which an individual actually belongs; the
individual identifies with group members strongly enough to take on the values,
attitudes, and behaviors of people in that group.
b. An aspirational reference group is a group to which a person aspires to belong; the
individual desires to be like those group members.
c. A dissociative or negative reference group is a group that a person does not wish to
be associated with; the individual does not want to take on the values, attitudes, and
behavior of group members.
3. A reference group is an individual’s point of comparison and a source of information.
4. How much a reference group influences a purchasing decision depends on the
individual’s susceptibility to reference group influence and strength of involvement with
the group.
5. Reference group influence may affect the product decision, the brand decision, or both.
6. A marketer sometimes uses reference group influence in advertisements to promote
product purchases and high product satisfaction within a specific group.
E. Opinion Leaders
1. An opinion leader is a reference group member with knowledge or expertise who
provides information about a specific sphere that interests reference group participants.
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2. An opinion leader is likely to be most influential when consumers have high product
involvement but low product knowledge, when they share the opinion leader’s values and
attitudes, and when the product details are numerous or complicated (see Table 7.3).
F. Social Classes
1. A social class is an open aggregate of people with similar social rank.
2. Criteria used to group people into classes vary from one society to another.
3. In the United States, we group according to many factors, including occupation,
education, income, wealth, race, ethnic group, and possessions; analyses of social class in
the United States divide people into three to seven class categories (see Table 7.4).
4. Individuals within social classes develop some common patterns of behavior, attitudes,
values, language patterns, and possessions.
5. Because social class influences so many aspects of a person’s life, it also affects buying
decisions; spending, saving, and credit practices; type, quality, and quantity of products;
and shopping patterns and stores patronized.
G. Culture and Subcultures
1. Culture is the accumulation of values, knowledge, beliefs, customs, objects, and
concepts that a society uses to cope with its environment and passes on to future
generations.
2. Culture includes:
a. Tangible items such as food, clothing, furniture, buildings, and tools
b. Intangible concepts such as education, welfare, and laws
c. The values and a broad range of behaviors accepted by a specific society
3. Because cultural influences affect the ways people buy and use products, culture affects
the development, promotion, distribution, and pricing of products.
4. International marketers must take into account global cultural differences.
a. People in other regions of the world have different attitudes, values, and needs.
b. International marketers must adapt to different methods of doing business and must
develop different types of marketing mixes.
5. A Subculture is a group of individuals whose characteristics, values, and behavioral
patterns are similar within the group and different from those of people in the
surrounding culture.
a. Subcultural boundaries are usually based on geographic designations and
demographic factors.
b. Marketers recognize that the growth in the number of U.S. subcultures has resulted in
considerable variation in consumer buying behavior.
(1) African American Subculture
(a) Represents 13.7 percent of the U.S. population.
(b) Spends more money on depreciable products like phone services, children’s
clothing, and shoes.
(c) Many companies have renewed their advertising focus on African Americans.
(2) Hispanic Subculture
(a) Is the largest ethnic group, with 16.7 percent of the U.S. population, and is
growing rapidly.
(b) This subculture is composed of many diverse cultures from across Latin
America.
(c) Many companies have Spanish-language advertising and promotions
featuring Hispanic and Latino celebrities.
(3) Asian American Subculture
(a) Represents 5.7 percent of the U.S. population and is comprised of 15 different
ethnic groups.
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(b) Individual language, religion, and value system of each group influences
purchasing decisions, although some traits are common among all the ethnic
groups.
(c) Some cross-culture traits include an emphasis on hard work, strong family
ties, and high value placed on education.
VII. Consumer Misbehavior
A. Consumer misbehavior is behavior that violates generally accepted norms of a particular
society.
B. Definitions of misbehavior can vary between cultures.
C. Shoplifting, consumer fraud, abusive consumers, and pirating/illegally copying products are
all examples of consumer misbehavior.
D. Understanding the psychological and social reasons for misconduct can help in preventing
and responding to problems (see Table 7.5).
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DISCUSSION STARTERS
Discussion Starter 1: Consumer Buying Behavior and Social Classes
To do this exercise which links consumer behavior tastes with various social strata, click on the hyperlink
below to access a PBS game on consumer and class tastes.
http://www.pbs.org/peoplelikeus/games/chintz.html
Students can work individually or in teams. As explained on the website, the game has students make a
series of choices to decorate a living room. Upon completion of the game, it tells students what their
choices mean about their social class inclinations based on prior research of consumer behavior. Students
generally have fun with this exercise because they have leeway to decorate the room however they want.
If students play this in groups they may find that the group decision making process leads them to make
different choices than they otherwise would have.
Discussion Starter 3: How Many Times Can a Company Violate a Customer’s Trust?
ASK: Can automakers regain the public’s trust after their speed out of control or have faulty ignition
switches that prevent airbags from inflating?
Toyota is trying to revive its quality reputation after widespread problems related to stuck accelerator
pedals. Because the company was slow to issue recalls, it had to pay hefty fines. Although a report by the
National Highway Transportation Safety Administration attributed driver error as the cause of many
Toyota collisions, the company still made quality mistakes that resulted in recalls. Will buyers trust
Toyota again?
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General Motors issued over 40 recalls in 2014 due to faulty ignition switches which could shut off the
engine during driving and thereby prevent the airbags from inflating. These recalls involved nearly 28
million cars worldwide and over 24.6 million in the United States. The fault had been known to GM for at
least a decade prior to the recall being declared. A statement by the GM CEO fell on deaf ears, especially
when two more recalls occurred since. It will take a much more coordinated—and expensive—campaign
to regain the American consumer's trust. GM must address consumers directly. This will be a long-term
process which will involve total honesty about the current situation of the recalls, a commitment to fix the
problems and finally, the results of GM's efforts and how it is a better company. GM should consider a
more integrated approach, utilizing mobile and digital channels as well.
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CLASS EXERCISES
Class Exercise 1: Social Influences on Consumption
The objective of this class exercise is to help students understand how social influences affect their
consumption behaviors.
Prompt for Students:
Imagine that you are going out tonight. Which of the following social influences will determine what you
wear, where you go, what you do, and what you will buy or consume?
1. Your role as a student, family member, employee, church member, or fraternity or sorority
member.
2. Identification with a positive reference group. Disassociation from a negative reference group.
3. Membership within a particular social class. Aspirations to be in a different social class.
4. Cultural values that accept or reject certain types of behavior. Gender roles: expectations of how
men and women should act.
5. Membership in a subculture based on geography, age, or ethnic background.
6. Knowing how these factors affect your consumption behavior, how can marketers adjust their
marketing mixes to meet your needs?
Answers:
1. As fraternity or sorority members, students may be influenced to stay out late for social reasons,
which may conflict with their roles as students, employees, and church members. The demands of
a person’s many roles may be inconsistent and confusing. Some married students may describe
joint decision-making situations and the influence of children. Other likely responses will relate
to clothing, restaurant choice, and food or beverage consumption.
2. You may also want to ask, “When ordering at a restaurant, do you find that people often order
the same thing?” After one person (opinion leader) has decided to order something, others may
order the same thing (“I’ll take what he/she ordered”). Reference groups clearly affect the choice
of clothing and patronage at retail outlets. Some students may indicate that there are places they
will not go because of the presence of negative reference groups.
3. The cars that students drive may reflect either their present social status or their desired social
status. Social class may also affect what beer, wine, or other beverages students drink. You may
also want to ask, “How does social class affect where you shop?”
4. Ask students the following: “Have any of you been in other cultures where you saw people doing
things that would never be accepted in the United States?” If you have international students in
class, ask them what they find peculiar about American culture. Discussion may be geared toward
views of time and women.
5. Students may be able to identify certain types of food (catfish in the South), clothing (surf wear in
the West), vehicles (pickups in the Midwest and Southwest), or accessories (Gucci handbags in
the East) that are associated with subcultures.
6. Some possible examples include the following:
• Promotion: Show upper-class individuals in luxury car ads.
• Product: Design products (cars) that meet joint needs of family.
• Price: Offer price discounts to students with limited income.
• Distribution: Allocate more pickups to Midwest and Southwest.
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Semester Project
Increasingly, organizations seek to attract and hold onto top talent by offering a variety of unique benefits
designed to appeal to employees. These benefits go beyond the traditional health care, retirement, and
vacation plans to include such benefits as concierge services, provisions to bring your dog to work, vegan
or vegetarian entrees in the cafeteria, etc.
For many employees, these benefits are crucial to their lifestyle and therefore crucial to their work
environment. In this exercise, you are to consider the types of benefits you want an organization to
provide. Conduct some research on which types of organizations provide these types of benefits.
Step 1: Research some of the alternative benefits being offered by organizations.
Step 2: Explore what types of industries and organizations provide these benefits.
Step 3: Determine if these industries or organizations offer positions in your chosen career field.
Step 4: Identify a list of the types of benefits you would like to have at your workplace.
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1. See Table 7.1. What type of decision making are your customers likely to use when purchasing
your product?
It is essential for marketers to be able to identify and anticipate consumer decision making
responses, as this may affect how a product is marketed. The type of response engendered will
depend on the type of product offered. If a student’s product is low in cost, customers may have a
routinized response. However, if the product is high in cost and very specialized, their response may
be extended.
2. Determine the evaluative criteria that your target market(s) would use when choosing between
alternative brands.
There are many different criteria that customers may consider when looking to purchase a product.
The criteria will vary depending on the type of product. Some possible criteria are price, features,
customer service, color, styling, or packaging.
3. Using Table 7.2, what types of family decision making, if any, would your target market(s)
use?
The different types are: husband dominant, wife dominant, autonomic, and syncratic. These are
general types, and individuals may vary considerably from one household to the next.
4. Identify the reference groups or subcultures that may influence your target market’s product
selection.
There are many different possible answers to this question and responses will vary widely
depending on students’ products.
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raises the questions about what the product purchase should accomplish and for whom. The buyer’s
momentary moods can affect a person’s ability and desire to search for information, to receive
information, and to seek and evaluate alternatives.
3. What is selective exposure? Why do people engage in it?
Selective exposure is the process of receiving information, then internally screening information
with only partial awareness of the total experience. People select some inputs and ignore many
others because they cannot be conscious of all inputs at one time. An input is more likely to reach
awareness if it relates to an antecedent event or to an unmet need. People are more likely to notice a
TV advertisement for McDonald’s when hungry and wondering about where to eat lunch.
4. How do marketers attempt to shape consumers’ learning?
Marketers attempt to influence consumers’ learning by exposing them to product experiences
through free samples. Indirect experiences of products through product information from
salespeople and advertisements are other avenues by which marketers attempt to influence
purchases through the learning process.
5. Why are marketers concerned about consumer attitudes?
Consumer attitudes toward an organization and its products strongly influence the success or failure
of the marketing program. Negative attitudes among consumers may result in loss of sales, whereas
strong, positive attitudes may increase sales. Because attitudes play such an important role in
determining consumer behavior, marketers seek to measure consumer attitudes toward prices,
packaging, branding, advertising, salespeople, services, images, and new-product features. If a
significant number of consumers hold negative attitudes toward a firm or its products, the marketing
program should be changed to positively impact consumer attitudes.
6. In what ways do lifestyles affect the consumer buying decision process?
A lifestyle is an individual’s pattern of living expressed through activities, interests, and opinions.
Lifestyles have a strong impact on many aspects of the consumer-buying process from problem
recognition to post-purchase evaluation. Lifestyles influence product needs, brand preferences, types
of media used, and how and where people shop.
7. How do roles affect buying behavior? Provide examples.
A role consists of a set of actions and activities expected of a person holding a certain position
within a group, organization, or institution. All individuals assume several roles depending on the
number of positions they occupy. Roles may affect whether, what, where, when, or why a person
buys. The roles of other persons also influence purchasing behavior. Marketers want to know who
does the actual buying as well as who influences the purchase decisions. Consider the types of
clothes you buy and wear to work, school, church, or the gym. You and the people at each of these
destinations know the types of appropriate clothing for each place.
8. What are family influences, and how do they affect buying behavior?
Family influences have a very direct impact on the consumer buying decision process. Parents teach
children how to cope with a variety of problems, including purchasing decisions. Children often
gain consumer socialization, the process through which a person acquires the knowledge and skills
needed to function as a consumer, from their parents. Through observation of family buying
practices and choice of brand names, children are influenced to use some of these techniques or
products when they establish their own families. The extent to which family members participate in
the buying process also affects who will be allowed input later in a person’s life when consumer
buying decisions are made.
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9. What are reference groups? How do they influence buying behavior? Name some of your own
reference groups.
A reference group is a group of people with which an individual strongly identifies with, taking on
many of the values, attitudes, or behaviors of group members. The reference group can be large or
small. Individuals usually identify with several reference groups. The effect of reference groups on
purchasing behavior is dependent upon the type of product, an individual’s susceptibility to group
influence, and the extent of an individual’s group involvement.
102. How does an opinion leader influence the buying decision process of reference group
members?
An opinion leader is viewed as being well informed about a sphere of interest and is willing and
able to share information with followers. An opinion leader is trusted by followers because they
share similar values and attitudes.
113. In what ways does social class affect a person’s purchase decisions?
Individuals within social classes often exhibit common consumer behavior patterns; they share
similar attitudes, values, and possessions. Social class influences a person’s attitudes, perceptions,
motives, personality, and learning processes, all of which affect purchasing decisions. Marketers
need to understand how consumer behavior is impacted by social class.
14. What is culture? How does it affect a person’s buying behavior?
Culture is everything in our surroundings made by human beings, including tangible and intangible
items. Culture influences what we wear and eat, where we live, and how we live. It affects the ways
we buy and use products and influences the satisfaction we receive from products. Culture affects
the entire marketing mix because it determines the ways products are purchased and used.
15. Describe the subcultures to which you belong. Identify buying behavior unique to one of your
subcultures.
This question lets students probe the unique subcultures to which they belong. Students should be
encouraged to relate the particular features of their subcultures to their purchasing behavior.
16. What is consumer misbehavior? Describe the various forms of consumer misbehavior.
Consumer misbehavior is behavior that violates generally accepted norms of a particular society.
Shoplifting, consumer fraud, abusive consumers, and pirating/illegally copying products are all
examples of consumer misbehavior, and students should describe each in detail.
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experience and greet customers by name. Students are likely to have more ideas about Disney’s
use of marketing to address situational influences on buying.
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