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Seat No.: ________ Enrolment No.___________
GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
MBA - SEMESTER? III EXAMINATION ? WINTER 2019
Subject Code: 3539211 Date:03-12-2019
Subject Name: Consumer Behaviour
Time: 10:30 AM TO 1.30 PM Total Marks: 70
Instructions:
1. Attempt all questions.
2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
3. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
Q.1 Definitions / terms / explanations / short questions based on concepts of theory/practical
(a) Customer Satisfaction
(b) Primary Data
(c) Focus Group
(d) Mail Survey
(e) VALS
(f) Attitude Scale
(g) Consumer Perception
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Q.2 (a) What is Consumer Research? Explain Consumer Research Process in detail. 07
(b) List and explain how new technologies are enabling marketers to understand
and satisfy consumer needs in a better way than before.
07
OR
(b) Explain Maslow?s hierarchy of needs with reference to motivation and state
examples of how marketers position their offerings for different levels of the
hierarchy
07
Q.3 (a) Why are consumers? needs and goals constantly changing? What factors influence the
formation of new goals?
07
(b) Describe personality trait theory. Give five examples of how personality traits
can be used in consumer research.
07
OR
Q.3 (a) Compared with the mass media, what are the advantages and unique features of new
media?
07
(b) Discuss the role of extrinsic and intrinsic cues in the perceived quality of : -
( a ) Wines ( b ) Restaurants ( c ) Cell phones ( d ) Graduate education
07
Q.4 (a) How can the principles of (a) classical conditioning and (b) instrumental conditioning be
applied to the development of marketing strategies?
07
(b) You are the owner of two furniture stores, one catering to upper-middle-class
consumers and the other to lower-class consumers. How do social-class differences
07
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Seat No.: ________ Enrolment No.___________
GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
MBA - SEMESTER? III EXAMINATION ? WINTER 2019
Subject Code: 3539211 Date:03-12-2019
Subject Name: Consumer Behaviour
Time: 10:30 AM TO 1.30 PM Total Marks: 70
Instructions:
1. Attempt all questions.
2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
3. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
Q.1 Definitions / terms / explanations / short questions based on concepts of theory/practical
(a) Customer Satisfaction
(b) Primary Data
(c) Focus Group
(d) Mail Survey
(e) VALS
(f) Attitude Scale
(g) Consumer Perception
14
Q.2 (a) What is Consumer Research? Explain Consumer Research Process in detail. 07
(b) List and explain how new technologies are enabling marketers to understand
and satisfy consumer needs in a better way than before.
07
OR
(b) Explain Maslow?s hierarchy of needs with reference to motivation and state
examples of how marketers position their offerings for different levels of the
hierarchy
07
Q.3 (a) Why are consumers? needs and goals constantly changing? What factors influence the
formation of new goals?
07
(b) Describe personality trait theory. Give five examples of how personality traits
can be used in consumer research.
07
OR
Q.3 (a) Compared with the mass media, what are the advantages and unique features of new
media?
07
(b) Discuss the role of extrinsic and intrinsic cues in the perceived quality of : -
( a ) Wines ( b ) Restaurants ( c ) Cell phones ( d ) Graduate education
07
Q.4 (a) How can the principles of (a) classical conditioning and (b) instrumental conditioning be
applied to the development of marketing strategies?
07
(b) You are the owner of two furniture stores, one catering to upper-middle-class
consumers and the other to lower-class consumers. How do social-class differences
07
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influence each store?s (a) product line and styles, (b) advertising media selection, and
(c) payment policies?
OR
Q.4 (a) Explain a model of Consumer Decision Making.
07
(b) Explain how the product manager of a breakfast cereal might change consumer
attitudes toward the company?s brand by (a) changing beliefs about the brand, (b)
changing beliefs about competing brands, (c) changing the relative evaluation of
attributes and (d) adding an attribute.
07
Q.5
CASE STUDY: The Viewer?s Voice Influences TV Programming
American TV producers broadcasted entertainment programs supported by
advertising fees for over 60 years. Much like a book or a movie, the contents of these
programs were without significant input from the audience?the receivers of these
communications. Generally, Nielsen ratings have been used to gauge the ?success? of
TV programs and determine the advertising rates on various broadcasts. After
watching them, many viewers frequently discussed TV programs at their offices?
water coolers, and some may have even talked back to their televisions while
watching. But, the writers and producers of these programs had no reliable and
continuous way to listen to what viewers were saying.
Today, online Web sites such as www.televisionwitoutpity.com (TWOP) give
consumers a forum to discuss, rate, complain about, and occasionally compliment
scores of TV shows and even some movies. TWOP is an online site where vast
numbers of viewers can virtually ?gather? after or even during a broadcast and discuss
their views about a particular show. Because the viewers who post their comments are
very involved with the programs they watch, the producers of TV shows can read their
postings, get a sense of their publics? reactions to plotlines, dialogues, and other show
features, and incorporate such feedback into the content of future show episodes. Since
TV shows are filmed several weeks prior to broadcast, writers can now change yet-to-
be-broadcast programming to address concerns expressed by viewers? TWOP posts.
For example, if a given story line on the highly popular show Mad Men appears to
bore or irritate viewers, the story line can be shortened and concluded sooner than
planned.
(a) How does the communications? feedback that TV shows? writers and producers (the
communications? sources) receive through Web sites like TWOP differ from input
derived from conventional fan mail and standard TV shows? ratings?
07
(b) For a TV show of your choice, apply the concept of source credibility to current viewer
comments posted on TWOP.
07
OR
Q.5 (a) Should television programmers and producers consider the comments viewers post on
TWOP in designing future broadcasts? Why or why not?
07
(b)
Compare and contrast the Nielsen rating or a given episode on a TV series with the
comments posted about the same show on TWOP. Are the two measures of viewer
feedback consistent with one another or not? Explain your answer.
07
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