Psychology of the consumer and its development : an introduction /

An unusually understandable survey of the forces or perception and feeling that determine the purchases we make; the roles played by fashion, fads, and status; and the psychological needs that they fulfill. The book discusses how children become consumers and how they change as they age. Research ba...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Webb, Robert C.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [1999]
Series:Plenum series in adult development and aging.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Attention and awareness
  • Inferences of organization and meaning
  • Cognition, reasoning, and choosing
  • Aspects of the unconscious
  • Affect, emotion, and involvement
  • Attitudes and persuasion
  • Psychological needs
  • Classical conditioning in marketing
  • Operant conditioning in marketing
  • Culture and family influences
  • Developmental factors.