Consumer Behaviour: The 8 Stages of Information Processing Model

1. Exposure to Information

2. Selective Attention

3. Comprehension

4. Agreement

5. Retention in Memory

6. Retrieval

7. Consumer Decision Making

8. Action

"Bringing a stimulus within proximity of a customer so it can be sensed"

Aka: Putting the product out there!

Social media is probably the most popular method nowadays

Crucial in successfully reaching the consumer on a cognitive level

Advert must lure ppl in + grab their attention

Effective methods include increasing intensity of the stimuli, e.g more visual/audible stimulus, contrasting colours etc

Often takes repeated + consistent messages

Can take up to 10 different marketing attempts to get a customer to acknowledge you exist

Ppl have different ways of understanding info so a good communicator offers various methods

Customer is being influenced by the characteristics of the message, the message receiver + the environment

Consumers will only agree w/ the message they understand if it's credible + contains info + value for them

What consumers remember about the marketing stimuli

How they access/retrieve the info when making consumption choices

How they decide between alternatives

Usually use simplifying strategies to come to a decision

Even though consumers have gone through all the stages, they might not behave consistently w/ their preference