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Psychological Processes
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What are these processes?
This refers to the psychological processes that govern buying behaviour of individuals and groups
• Information Processing• Learning• Influencing attitudes and Behaviour
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Information Processing
• Exposure – achievement of proximity to a stimulus to activate the senses
• Attention- allocation of processing capacity to stimulus
• Comprehension – interpretation of stimulus• Acceptance – persuasive impact of stimulus• Retention – transfer of stimulus interpretation to
memory
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Exposure
Given exposure to a stimulus of sufficient strength, a person’s sensory
receptors are activated and a message is sent to the brain. This is called a sensation,
which happens after crossing a threshold level
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Threshold levels
• Lower/absolute threshold – stimulus intensity below which sensation would not occur
• Terminal threshold – above which additional doses of stimulus intensity has no effect on sensation
• Difference threshold – smallest change in stimulus intensity that would get noticed
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Weber’s Law
• The change in stimulus intensity required to be noticeable is not on the amount but on the percentage change from the original stimulus.
K = Δ I/I where K is a constant ΔI = change in stimulus intensity I = original stimulus intensity
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Getting Attention
• The first step in getting your ad noticed by the target segment
• Advertising clutter• Noise clutter• Memory is less when viewed/heard with
competitive brand advertising.
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Attention
• Preattentive processing – limitation of processing capacity. 1st stage
• Attention – allocation of processing capacity to stimulus. 2nd stage
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Personal determinants of attention
• Need/Motivation• Attitudes• Adaptation level• Span of attention
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Stimulus determinants of attention
• Size• Colour• Intensity• Contrast • Position
• Directionality• Movement• Isolation• Novelty• Learned ‘stimuli’• Attractive spokesperson
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Primacy and Recency effects
Primacy• Being the first ad, it registers in the mind.
Recency• The last one is fresh in memory
Therefore such ad positions are priced at a premium.
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What ads attracts attention?
• Product information that would help purchase decision
• Those that expose themselves to information that support these opinions and avoid discrepant information
• Those that desire to get exposed to information that stimulates
• Stimuli which is interesting
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Information of Practical value
The behavioural tendency to process information depends on
• Need for information• Expectancy (Probability) that processing a
particular ad will lead to relevant information exposure
• Measure of the value of that particular as a source of relevant information
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Long copy Vs short copy
• Readership drops sharply after 50 words but between 50 and 500 words there is hardly any difference.
• ‘The more you tell the more you sell’• ‘If you don’t have anything to say, then sing it.’ • Depends on whether it is under active search or
for future reference• Infomercials• Advertorials
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Information that supports
• Dissonance theory – Cognitive dissonance is discomforting and people will try to reduce it. One mechanism is through selective exposure
• People tend to have a psychological preference for supportive information and avoid discrepant information. This is called selective exposure
• Ad awareness seems to be higher for those who already have higher brand attitudes – Rajeev Batra and Wilried Vanhonacker
• Involuntary exposure to non-supportive information shall increase selective exposure to information that supports
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Information that interests
• People tend to notice information that is interesting to them – Russel Haley
• This where customer self-selection works when such ads are put in mass media.
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Information that stimulates• Variety theory by Salvadore Maddi. This states
that novelty, unexpectedness, change and complexity are pursued because they are inherently satisfying.
• Adaptation level theory by H. Helson. People learn to associate stimuli with a reference point or adaptation level. Marked deviation from it shall attract attention.
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Attention vs Recall
Recall of an ad is a necessary but not sufficient condition for persuasion.
• Ad repetition, higher frequency and higher SOV
• Using distinctive creative material in the ad• Merchandising using clues to recall ad at
the store
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Attention vs Comprehension
• While getting attention is important it should not detract the viewer from the message
• The execution, models, props, etc. must not take precedence over the brand.
• Persuasion takes place when good comprehension takes place. Processing would take central or peripheral routes of processing depending on the comprehension.
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Comprehension
The interpretation of the stimulus. To derive meaning from the stimulus.
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How does this happen?
• Stimulus categorization – classifying stimulus using concepts stored in memory
• Stimulus elaboration – integration between new knowledge and knowledge stored in memory
• Stimulus organization – how people organize and rearrange stimuli into a meaningful whole (Gestalt psychology)
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Personal determinants of Comprehension
• Linguistics• Order effects• Context• Miscomprehension
• Motivation• Hunger• Expectation or perceptual set• Stimulus determinants
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What is perception?
It is the process where an individual receives stimuli through the various senses
and interprets them
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The Perception Process
Stimulus Cognition
Active Search
Passive search
Passive Attention
Simplify
Distort
Organize
Attention Interpretation
Stimulus Conditions
Intensity
Size
Message
Novelty
Position
Context
Audience Conditions
AttitudesValuesInterestsConfidenceSocial ContextCognitive Style
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Perceptual organization
• People tend to see objects as a whole than see individually its parts. – S. E. Asch
• First impressions are important.• Closure• Assimilation – Contrast• Miscomprehension
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Interpretation vs Comprehension
• Objective comprehension What is the take-out of the brand? – copy test
scales• Subjective comprehension Explicit – the ad story Implicit – using the ad information along with
knowledge and experience already stored in memory
The deeper the level of subjective comprehension, the more effective the ad will be credibility, likeability, persuasive and recall – David Mick
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Acceptance
This is the persuasive impact of the stimulus
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Acceptance depends on
• Cognitive responses – SAs and CAs• Affective responses - feelings that are
elicited by the stimulus
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Retention
Transfer of stimulus interpretation and persuasion into long term
memory
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Methods for enhancing retention
• Interrelation between stimulus elements• Use concrete words rather than abstract
words• Encourage self referencing• Mnemonics – jingles, rhymes, music,etc.• Repetition
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Memory
Memory is space allocated in the brain to store processed information and retrieve it as when desired.
Our brain consists of two hemispheres• Left brain – logical, abstract and conceptual
thinking• Right brain – creative, intuitive, imaginal• The connection is through the corpus callosum Normally people are ‘left’ or ‘right’ brain
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Memory consists of
• Sensory memory – iconic (visual), echoic (auditory) – 0.25 sec
• Short term memory - < 30 sec• Long term memory
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Learning
This is the process by which experience leads to changes in
knowledge , attitudes and behaviour.
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Learning takes place through
• Cognitive learning – from changes in knowledge and information processing
• Behavioural learning – observing behaviour and changes in behaviour
Most consumer behaviour is learned behaviour
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Cognitive learning
• Rehearsal – mental repetition of information
• Elaboration – the degree of integration between the stimulus and existing knowledge that occurs during information processing. It is influenced by the motivation and ability of the individual
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Forgetting
When you are unable to retrieve or access information stored in long
term memory
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Types of forgetting
• Decay – memory trace will fade with passage of time
• Interference – caused by learning new information over time.
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Interference
• Retroactive inhibition – recently learned information prevents retrieval of previously learnt information
• Proactive inhibition – prior learning prevents hinders retrieval and learning of new information
• Momentary forgetting – when information is present but retrieval is difficult because of limitations in accessibility
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Determinants of information accessibility
• Amount of information stored in memory within the same ‘content’ domain
• Particular retrieval cues available at that time eg. Pops, jingles, key words,etc.
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Measures of Cognitive learning
• Recognition – from multiple choice• Recall – qualitative answers
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Measures of cognitive learning
• Aided recall• Unaided recall• Day after recall (DAR)
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Behavioural learning
• Classical conditioning• Operant conditioning• Shaping
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Classical conditioning
Unconditioned stimulus
Conditioned stimulus
Unconditioned response
Conditioned Response
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Determinants of Classical Conditioning
• Strength of unconditioned stimulus• No. of pairings or strength of association
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Extinction
When the conditioned stimulus is unable to evoke the conditioned response. This will happen if the association with the US is broken
with the CS
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Generalization
When for an existing stimulus – response relationship, a new stimulus
similar to the stimulus is used to bring about the same response
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Discrimination
The process by which an individual learns to emit a response to one
stimulus but avoids making the same response to a similar response
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Operant Conditioning
Instrumental learning concerned with how the consequences of a behaviour
will affect the frequency or probability of the behaviour being
repeated
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Operant conditioning can take place through
• Positive reinforcement• Negative reinforcement
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Applications in Marketing
• Sampling• Trials• Demonstrations• Test drives
Research has proved that there is 60% more penetration when free sampling is done.
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Shaping
The process which encourages marketers to think about what behaviours must precede the ultimate act of purchase and how these prerequisite behaviour can be encouraged
through appropriate reinforcements
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Vicarious learning
This is the process of learning through observing the action of others and the consequences of those behaviours. It
includes elements of both cognitive and behavioural learning.