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Advertising & Marketing Flashcards

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What is marketing?

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Marketing is about managing key aspects of an organisation’s environment and includes a wide variety of strategic and manager activities

Management of exchange relationships. Marketing is the business process of creating relationships with and satisfying customers.

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What does the American marketing Association say marketing is

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The activity set of instructions and processes for creating, communicating, delivering and exchanging offerings that have value for customers clients partners and so

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What is the two fold goal of marketing

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To attract new customers by promising superior value

To keep and grow current customers by delivering value and satisfaction and exchanges that result in relationships

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What determines If marketing has been successful

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Whether marketing has been successful or not depends on whether the purchaser has acquired a meaningful advantage from the seller

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What is the target market

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Customers on whom and organisation focuses its marketing affects

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What is a customer

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Someone who purchases products from the seller

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What are needs

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States of felt deprivation

Individual needs: knowledge and expression
Basic physical needs: food, clothing, safety
Social needs: belonging and affection

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What are wants

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The form human needs take as they are shaped by culture and personality

For example a person needs food but wants takeaway

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What are demands

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The human wants that are backed up by buying power

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What is the marketing process

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(Create value for customers and build relationships)
Understand the marketplace and customer needs and wants

Design a customer value-driven marketing strategy

Construct an integrated marketing program that delivers superior value

Engage customers build profitable relationships and create customer delight

(Last stage - capture value from customers in return)
Create profits and customer equity

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What is the marketing mix?

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More than just advertising and selling a product - involves a range of factors

Product
Price
Distribution
Promotion

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What are the 8P’s?

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  • Place
  • Product
  • Partnerships
  • Processes
  • Physical evidence
  • People
  • Promotion
  • Price
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What is the place variable?

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To satisfy customers products must be available at the right time and in convenient location

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What is the price variable?

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Relates to the decisions and actions associated with establishing pricing objectives and policies and determining product prices

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What is the promotion variable?

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Activities used to inform individuals or groups about the organisation and its products

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What is the people variable?

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Refers to and includes the people involved with preparing, producing and presenting the product

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What is the physical evidence variable?

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The elements associated with the product used to demonstrate the product and what it is.

E.g. decor lighting and other elements

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What is the processes variable?

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Involves things such as automation or use of self service technology

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What is the partnership variable?

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Establishing, maintaining and nurturing partnerships throughout the supply chain

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What is advertising

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A paid nonpersonal communication about an organisation and its products transmitted to a target audience through mass media

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What are the key advertising decisions

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Four major decisions need to be considered when developing an advertising plan

  • objectives setting
  • budget decisions
  • message and media decisions
  • advertising evaluation
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What is the advertising decision of objectives

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A specific communication task to be accomplished with a specific target audience during a specific time period

Is typically the first step and should be based on past decisions about the target market position and the marketing mix

Can be used to inform persuade or remind customers

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What is the product variable?

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A good, service, idea or a combination

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What is informative advertising

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Mostly used when introducing a new product it is to build primary demand

For example telling the market about a new product explaining how the product works or describing available services and support

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What is persuasive advertising

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Important when competition is high the goal is to build selective demand

Comparative or attack advertising: company directly or indirectly compares its brand to one or more other brands that already exists

For example encouraging switching to a brand or changing customer perceptions of product value

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What is reminder advertising

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Important for mature products as it helps to maintain customer relationships and keeps them thinking about the products

For example Reminding them where they can buy the product

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What is the advertising decision of a budget

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It’s the total amount of money allocated for advertising over a specific time period
Budgets differ depending on how new the product is if it is new are a larger advertising budget is needed to build awareness and gain consumer trial also brands that have many competitors must be advertise more heavily to be noticed

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What are the key factors to take into account when making a budget decision

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Geographical size of the market and distribution of buyers

Type of product

Industry norms regarding advertising frequency

The desired position of a company

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What is the percent of sales approach?

Benefits? Issues?

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Adjust past sales according to expected increase or decrease. The budget will be determined by the proportion of this adjustment

This is a very common method as it is easy to implement

It could lead to a vicious cycle when reduction in expected sales leads to a reduced budget thus further diminishing sales

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What is the objective and task approach?

Benefits? Issues?

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Determines campaign objectives and lists tasks that will achieve this objective the total budget is determined by the total cost of these tasks

It is the most logical approach and it is useful for setting the budget of a new product

It is hard to estimate which tasks will achieve the campaign objective

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What is the competition matching approach?

Benefits? Issues?

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The aim is to match the major competitors budgets or to allocate the same percentage of sales for advertising that competitors do

Good to be aware of competitors actions.

This method is not enough as the only determinant for a budget since competitors might have different promotional objectives and resources. Also misses the opportunity to stand out and develop a unique selling proposition

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What is the arbitrary approach?

Benefits? Issues?

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a high level executive in the company states how much to spend on advertising for a certain period.

It isn’t a scientific technique. Past experience in recent marketing research should be allowed to influence the budget

Often leads to underspending or overspending

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What are message advertising decisions

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Planning of a message and content

Plain straightforward outlines of benefits and position points to be stressed

These can be:
Meaningful - pointing out benefits that make a product more desirable or interesting to consumers
Believable - consumers must believe that products or services will deliver the promised benefits
Distinctive - Tell how the product is better than competing brands

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When it comes to message advertising decisions what role do execution styles play

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The approach style tone words and format used for executing an advertising message can be presented in many execution styles

Such as:

Slice of life. Lifestyle. Fantasy. Mood or image. Musical. Personality symbol. Technical expertise. Scientific evidence. Testimonial evidence or endorsement.

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What is the slice of life execution style

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People using the product in a normal setting

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What is the lifestyle execution style

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How the product fits in with particular lifestyles

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What is the fantasy execution style

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Creates fantasy around the product or how it’s used

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What is the mood or image execution style

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Build a mood or image around the products such as beauty or love

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What is the musical execution style

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Characters singing about the product

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What is the personality symbol execution style

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Creates a character that represents the product

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What is the technical expertise execution style

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Companies expertise in making the product is displayed

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What is the scientific evidence execution style

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It presents scientific evidence that the brand is better

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What is the testimonial evidence or endorsement execution style

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It features highly believable or likeable sources

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What are advertising decisions are needed in relation to media

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There are four steps that need to be considered

  1. Reach, frequency, impact, and engagement
  2. Choosing the media type
  3. Selecting media vehicles
  4. Choosing media timing
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Television marketing? Advantages and limitations?

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There is a good mass marketing coverage a low cost per exposure and it combined site sound in motion which appeals to the senses

However there is high absolute costs high clutter and less audience selectivity

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Digital, mobile, and social media?

Advantages? Disadvantages?

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High selectivity.
Low-cost
Immediate
Engagement capabilities

However potentially low impact
High audience control of content and exposure

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Newspapers? Advantages and disadvantages?

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There’s flexibility high believability and broad acceptability

Shortlife poor reproduction quality and a small pass along audience

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Direct mail?

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High audience selectivity
No ad competition
Allows personalisation

Relatively high cost per exposure and junk mail

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Magazines?

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High geographic and demographic selectivity
Hugh credibility
High quality reproduction
Long life and good pass a long readership

High cost and no guarantee of the position

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Radio?

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Good local acceptance high geographic demographic selectivity and low-cost

Audio only
Fleeting exposure
Lower attention and fragmented audiences

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What is media timing

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It is deciding the schedule of the advertisement overtime

Specific timeframes may be relevant to specific ads

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When can advertising decisions be evaluated and assessed on effectiveness?

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Before the campaign, during the campaign (inquiries) and after the campaign (recognition test, unaided recall test)

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Which of the big 5 personality factors have been associated with the liking component of persuasion?

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Those high in agreeableness

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Which of the big 5 personality traits is associated with the scarcity component of persuasion?

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Those high in neuroticism

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Which personality trait does reciprocity have the biggest effect on?

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Conscientiousness and neuroticism

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What can the big 5 personality traits be clustered into?

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Three personality types.

Resilient, uncontrolled and overcontrolled

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What is a resilient personality?

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Lower than average neuroticism and higher than average in the other 4

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What is an overcontrolled personality?

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Higher than normal in neuroticism and lower in the other 4 traits

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What is an undercontrolled personality?

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Lower than average conscientiousness and agreeableness and higher than average openness, extraversion and neuroticism

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What did high scores on all dark triad personality traits more susceptible to?

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Scarcity. They are more likely to purchase something for themselves or do something if they think that they have limited time to do so

Least to reciprocity and authority.

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What did a socially apt personality label mean?

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Higher extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness.

More susceptible to the commitment strategy

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What is the theory of reasoned action?

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Behavioural intentions are decided by attitude and norms. Behaving based on pre-existing attitudes

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What is the theory of planned behaviour?

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Whether people think it is easy or difficult for them to perform the specific behaviour.

Performance is determined by the individuals intentions. Influenced by values and perceived ease.

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What is the technology acceptance model? (TAM)

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Predicts individual attitude towards accepting certain technology

  • usefulness
  • how easy it is to use
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What is the self validation hypothesis?

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The confidence in which thoughts are held is critical because it determines the extent to which thoughts influence attitudes.

If more confidence = more likely to influence decisions

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What is the learning approach to persuasion?

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To be influenced, the target first needs to learn to understand messages conveyed

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What is the consistency approach to persuasion?

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People prefer coherent associations among their beliefs, attitudes etc.
-cognitive dissonance: inconsistent thoughts, beliefs and attitudes. People who hold inconsistent thoughts and behaviours are said to experience psychological discomfort. Stronger dissonance = stronger attempts to reduce it.

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What is the selective exposure hypothesis?

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Selectively exposing themselves to information that doesn’t contradict thoughts

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What is the self perception approach to persuasion

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Similar to the consistency approach but claims that change occurs not because of psychological discomfort but because of self observation

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What is the attitudes and behaviour theory of persuasion?

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Includes:

  • theory of reasoned action: proposes the best predictor of voluntary action is the intention.
  • theory of planned behaviour: whether people think it will be easy or difficult to perform behaviour
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What is the cognitive approach to persuasion?

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Persuasion is mediated by the content of attitude relevant cognitions elicited.

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What is the heuristic and systematic processing approach to persuasion?

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Similar to the elaboration likelihood model but there is two different processing modes (systematic and heuristic)

May operate independently or simultaneously

73
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What happens if message receivers are unmotivated?

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They will use heuristic processing.

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What is the additivity hypothesis?

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Systematic and heuristic processing independently affect attitudes and do not contradict each other.

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What is the attenuation hypothesis?

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Systematic processing suppresses heuristic processing because it provides more information

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What is the bias hypothesis?

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If message contains both weak and strong arguments, it is possible that initial heuristic processes will bias systematic processes.

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What is the contrast hypothesis?

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Violations of expectations based on heuristic processing can lead to contrasting systematic processing.

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What is the uni model?

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A single process alternative to persuasion accounts. According to this theory, systematic and heuristic processing modes incorporate functionally equivalent types of evidence. Suggests that all information relative to the source can be considered evidence that individuals can take into account to reach a conclusion.

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What is the HSM (heuristic and semantic model) sufficiency principle?

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People attempt to attain sufficient confidence in their judgements and attitudes.

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