ADMS 2200 Quiz: Consumer Behavior EU 6th Book Summary Notes pt3
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It"s important to understand how consumers learn about products and services. Learning is a change in behaviour that is caused by experience. Learning can occur through simple associations between a stimulus and a response or via a complex series of cognitive activities. Behavioural learning theories assume that learning occurs as a result of responses to external events. Classical conditioning occurs when a stimulus that naturally elicits a response (an unconditioned stimulus) is paired with another stimulus that does not initially elicit this response. Over time, the second stimulus (the conditioned stimulus) elicits the response even in the absence of the first. Learned associations can generalize to other things and this is important to marketers. This response can also extend to other, similar stimuli in a process we call stimulus generalization. This process is the basis for such marketing strategies as licensing and family branding, where a consumer"s positive associations with a product transfer to other contexts.