MARKETNG 305 Study Guide - Frugality, Patagonia, Psychographic
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Agenda today: exam review, personality & marketing, lifestyle: the decision, next time . Personality: personality: a person"s unique psychological makeup and how it consistently influences the way a person responds to his/her environment. Trait theory: personality traits: identifiable characteristics that define a person, traits relevant to consumer behavior: Innovativeness (how much like to try new things) Self-consciousness (deliberate monitoring and controlling of self-image) Need for cognition (how much one likes to think) Marketing & personality: personality influences the way we responds to marketing stimuli. But efforts to use this information in marketing contexts meet with mixed results: we are not that consistent, personality is part of larger interplay of factors that influence behavior. Lifestyles: lifestyle: patterns of consumption reflecting a person"s choices of how one spends time and money, lifestyle marketing perspective: people sort themselves into groups on the basis of: Lifestyles as group identities: forms of expressive symbolism, self-definition of group members = common symbol system.