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CHAPTER

EIGHT

Consumer
Attitude
Formation and
Change

Learning Objectives
1. To Understand What Attitudes Are, How They Are
Learned, as Well as Their Nature and Characteristics.
2. To Understand the Composition and Scope of
Selected Models of Attitudes.
3. To Understand How Experience Leads to the Initial
Formation of Consumption-Related Attitudes.
4. To Understand the Various Ways in Which
Consumers Attitudes Are Changed.
5. To Understand How Consumers Attitudes Can Lead
to Behavior and How Behavior Can Lead to
Attitudes.

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What Is Your Attitude Toward the Product


Advertised? What Is Your Attitude Toward the
Ad Itself? Are the Two Attitudes Similar or
Different?

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You May Have Liked the


Product but Disliked the Ad or
Vice Versa

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Attitude

A learned
predisposition to
behave in a
consistently
favorable or
unfavorable manner
with respect to a
given object.

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What Are Attitudes?


The attitude object
Attitudes are a learned
predisposition
Attitudes have consistency
Attitudes occur within a situation

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What Information Does This Ad Provide


to Assist
Consumers in Forming Attitudes Toward
the Saturn Vue Hybrid?

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It is Stylish, Safe, and


Good for the Environment

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STRUCTURAL MODELS OF ATTITUDE

Tricomponent Attitude Model


Multiattribute Attitude Model
The Trying-to-Consume Model
Attitude-Toward-the-Ad Model

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Simple Representation of the


Tricomponent Attitude Model - Figure 8.3

Cognition

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THE TRICOMPONENT MODEL

Components
Cognitive

Affective
Conative

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The knowledge
and perceptions
that are acquired
by a combination
of direct
experience with
the attitude object
and related
information from
various sources
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THE TRICOMPONENT MODEL

Components

Cognitive
Affective

Conative

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A consumers
emotions or
feelings about a
particular
product or
brand

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THE TRICOMPONENT MODEL

Components

Cognitive
Affective
Conative

The likelihood or
tendency that an
individual will
undertake a specific
action or behave in a
particular way with
regard to the attitude
object

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Discussion Questions

Explain your attitude toward your


college/university based on the
tricomponent attribute model.
Be sure to isolate the cognitive,
affective, and conative elements.

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Multiattribute
Attitude
Models

Attitude models that


examine the
composition of
consumer attitudes
in terms of selected
product attributes or
beliefs.

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Multiattribute Attitude
Models
Types
The attitude Attitude is function
toward-object
of the presence of
model
certain beliefs or
attributes.
The attitude Useful to measure
toward-behavior
attitudes toward
model
product and
Theory-ofservice categories
reasoned-action
or specific brands.
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Multiattribute Attitude
Models
Types
The attitude Is the attitude
toward-object
toward behaving or
model
acting with respect
to an object, rather
The attitudethan the attitude
toward-behavior
toward the object
model
itself
Theory-of Corresponds
reasoned-action
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Consumer Characteristics, Attitude,


and Online Shopping

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view nine benefits of online


shopping, including effectiveness,
convenience, information, safety,
service, delivery speed, web design,
selection, and familiarity with
company name

Multiattribute Attitude Models


Types
The attitude Includes cognitive,
toward-object
affective, and
model
conative
components
The attitude Includes subjective
toward-behavior
norms in addition
model
to attitude
Theory-ofreasoned-action
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A Simplified Version of the Theory


of Reasoned Action - Figure 8.5

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Discussion Question
Now use the theory of reasoned
action to describe your attitude
toward your college/university when
deciding on which school to attend.

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Theory of
Trying to
Consume

An attitude theory
designed to account
for the many cases
where the action or
outcome is not certain
but instead reflects
the consumers
attempt to consume
(or purchase).

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Selected Examples of Potential


Impediments That Might Impact
Trying - Table 8.7

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AttitudeToward-theAd Model

A model that proposes


that a consumer forms
various feelings (affects)
and judgments
(cognitions) as the result
of exposure to an
advertisement, which, in
turn, affect the
consumers attitude
toward the ad and
attitude toward the
brand.

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A Conception of the Relationship


Among Elements in an AttitudeToward-the-Ad Model - Figure 8.6

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Issues in Attitude
Formation
How attitudes are learned
Conditioning and experience
Knowledge and beliefs

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How Does a Favorably Known Brand


Name Impact the Formation of
Consumer Attitudes
Toward a New Product?

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There is Stimulus Generalization


From the Lean Cuisine Brand
Names to the New Product.

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Issues in Attitude
Formation
Sources of influence on attitude
formation
Personal experience
Influence of family
Direct marketing and mass media

Personality factors

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How Does a Cents- Off


Coupon Impact Consumers
Attitudes?

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New Customers Will Try the


Product,
Existing Customers will be
Rewarded.

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Strategies of Attitude
Change

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Changing the Basic Motivational


Function

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Utilitarian function is how the product is useful


to us. A marketer might want to create a more
positive attitude toward a brand by showing all it
can do.
ego-defensive function would show how the
product would make them feel more secure and
confident.
A value-expressive function would more
positively reflect the consumers values, lifestyle,
and outlook.
knowledge function would satisfy the
consumers need to know and help them
understand more about the world around
them.
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Why and How Does This Ad


Appeal to the Utilitarian
Function?

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The Product is Green and


Works as Well or Better
than Other Products.

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Which Lifestyle- Related


Attitudes Are Expressed or
Reflected in This Ad?

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Healthy Eating and


Snacking Lifestyle

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How Does This Ad Provide Information


to Establish
or Reinforce Consumer Attitudes?

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It Raises the Question About UVA


Rays and then Provides
Information on Sun Protection.

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Discussion Questions
What products
that you
purchase
associate
themselves with
an Admired
Group or Event?
When does it
personally
influence your

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How Is Fiji Waters Link to an


Environmental Cause Likely to Impact
Consumers
Attitudes Toward Its Product?

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They Might Have a More Favorable


Attitude.

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Attitude Change
Altering Components of the
Multiattribute Model
Changing relative evaluation of
attributes
Changing brand beliefs
Adding an attribute
Changing the overall brand rating

Changing Beliefs about


Competitors Brands
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How Is This New Benefit Likely to


Impact Consumers Attitudes
Toward the Product?

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The Consumer Will Have a


More Positive Attitude Overall
from the New Attribute.

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How Is the Absence of an


Ingredient Likely to Lead to a
Favorable Attitude Toward a
Product?

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When It Was An
Unfavorable Attribute

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Which Attitude Change


Strategy Is Depicted in This
Ad?

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Changing the Overall Brand


Rating

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How Is Valvolines Attempt to Change


Attitudes Toward a Competing Brand
Likely to Impact Attitudes Toward Its
Own Brand?

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By Showing Better Wear


Protection

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Elaboration
Likelihood
Model
(ELM)

Customer attitudes are


changed by two
distinctly different
routes to persuasion:
a central route or a
peripheral route.

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Elaboration Likelihood
Model

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Central variables, leadS to the central


route, will be effective on highlymotivated consumers. They will do
the thinking necessary to understand
the information they are presented.
Peripheral variables, including music,
spokespeople, and bright packaging,
work on lower-involvement
consumers. Together, or alone, they
create an attitude change that
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Behavior Can Precede or Follow


Attitude Formation

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Issues in Attribution Theory


Self-Perception Theory
Foot-in-the-Door Technique

Attributions toward Others


Attributions toward Things
How We Test Our Attributions
Distinctiveness
Consistency over time
Consistency over modality
Consensus
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