marketing-consumer behavior – Flashcards

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consumer behavior depends on what (5)
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exposure perception attention memory learning
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perceptions relies on what
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5 senses
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vision
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wrapping color indicating flavors or scents
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smell
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scratch offs store having scent-abercombie
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sound
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jingles types of music played/volume
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touch
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samples, textures, holding bottle
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exposure
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"The process by which the consumer comes into contact with the stimulus."
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"contact"
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interacting with 5 senses
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"stimulus"
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seeing the product or smelling the product
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mere exposure
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The mere presentation of a cue (e.g. a brand) leads to increased liking of that cue even without people being aware
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fluency
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easier to process information
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What if the target product is not the "highest quality" product?
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you will start to like it because exposed to it alot
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consequence of too much mere exposure
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Sub-optimal consumer choice
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product placement
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put product in tv/movies
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subliminal perception
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Stimuli are presented below the threshold of recognition
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popcorn experiement
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-45,699 persons -Subliminal Advertising Experiment in movies -Stimuli: Drink Coca Cola and Eat Popcorn -Behavior: 57.8 % increase in sales of Popcorn, 18.1% increase in sales of Coca-Cola -However.... proved to be false but plenty of work in Marketing on unconscious processing
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what do we percieve?
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Just-noticeable (meaningful) difference (JND)/ Weber's Law
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Weber's Law
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The amount by which two stimuli must differ before a person can perceive that they are different.
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weber law example
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notice $1 change in price more on $3 product than on $1,000 product
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Just-noticeable (meaningful) difference (JND)/ Weber's Law AKA
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differential threshold
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how do you test limits
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-Increase the difference between two identical stimuli until the person says "they're different." -Decrease the difference between two stimuli until the person says "they're the same."
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When raising price, do it in small steps when...
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below JND
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When lowering price, do it in big steps when ..
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above JND
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JND package size
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-Decrease package size by small amount -Increase package size by large amount
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JND product quality
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Decrease quality by small amount
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packaging changes
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-If you want to maintain image, make many small changes -If you want to change image, make fewer large changes
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perception map tells us
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-Compare your brands to other brands -Find out who your competitors are -What are your strengths? How do you position yourself?
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how do you create perceptual map
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Ask your customers what attributes are important to them and how they feel about your product AND your competitors product
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Once you know what consumers think what do you do
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you must decide how to move consumers actual perception toward desired perception.
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attention
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The processes by which we devote mental activity to a stimulus
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characteristics of attention
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-Can be voluntary or involuntary. -Can be divided (with varying degrees of success). -Is limited, therefore must be selective.
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how many commercials do we see in a week
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700
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how do messages get through
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Novelty/ Expectation violation POsition
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Novelty/ Expectation violation
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-Unexpected ad or product format -Unexpected ad placement *we pay more attention to things we dont expect to see
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position
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Ex: Placement within magazine Back cover Near front, right of page Ex: Placement on store shelves
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adaptation
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We adapt, or habituate, to stimuli which leads to innattention
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what does adaptation tell marketers
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need to keep ad campaigns current and fresh
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Interpretational Biases
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Refers simply to the meaning we assign to sensory stimuli trying to "make sense" of things
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ambiguousness and perceptual bias
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The more ambiguous/uncertain the stimuli, the higher the likelihood of perceptual biases (very subjective)
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ex ambiguous
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clothing, food ---more taste guided
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ex unambiguous
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laptop: facts on variety, memory, can rank a product
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Consumers can be biased by (5)
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-Their schemas or set of beliefs -The country of origin -Their affective states - mood and emotions -Their preferences for specific brands -Price
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Their schemas or set of beliefs
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French wines are better; darker coffees are stronger
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the country of origin
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Made in France? Made in Italy? Made in U.S.A
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Their affective states - mood and emotions
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humor in ads
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Their preferences for specific brands
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Can you notice the differences in taste between Coke and Pepsi, Gatorade and PowerAde, etc.? Are you sure?
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price
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Does price imply quality?
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learning
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A relatively permanent change in behavior caused by experience and developing automatic responses to a situation built up through repeated exposure to it
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experiences are shaped by what
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feedback they recieve as they go through life
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actions result in what
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rewards and punishments, which influences future responses to similar situations
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Classical Conditioning- Pavlov
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Stimulus (unconditioned stimulus - UCS) that elicits a response is paired with another stimulus (conditioned stimulus - CS) that initially does not elicit a response on its own. Over time, this second stimulus (CS) causes a similar response because it is associated with the first one (UCS).
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mcdonalds classical consitions
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UCS- the smell CS-the logo CR- getting hungry
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conditiong success
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Repeated CS + UCS pairings are important. CS should not be presented too often without UCS.
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Conditioned Product Associations
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Ads often associate a product with a positive stimulus to create a desirable association E.g., Pleasant atmosphere at a Starbucks coffee shop (UCS) over time can be associated with the coffee (CS).
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extinction
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Danger of Extinction exists if the association is not there anymore E.g., Selling Starbucks products at the supermarkets.
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Stimulus Generalization
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-Similarity in product leads to similarity in response -Positive feelings associated with a product are hoped to be transferred to brand extensions and private brands -Licensing
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Stimulus Discrimination
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Refers to situations when we respond differently to the stimuli (i.e. products) because we can notice the difference why pepsi and coke look so different
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Evaluative Conditioning in Marketing
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Often evaluation of an UCS is transferred onto the CS.
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pens and music
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given pens to play with some heard good music others bad when asked to keep pen or get new pen good music people kept pen
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Reinforcement through Feedback
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-Continuous reinforcement schedule -Fixed ratio schedule -Variable ratio schedule
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Continuous reinforcement schedule
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everytime you fly people are nice
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Fixed ratio schedule
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you know once u get 25,000 miles you get a free flight
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Variable ratio schedule
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winning money on a bottle cap
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Marketers can (and do) reinforce or punish consumers indirectly by
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by showing what happens to desirable models who do or do not use their products
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Social Learning Theory/Observational Learning
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We don't have to be the one learning Occurs when people watch the actions of others and note reinforcements received for their behaviors bobo dolls
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Memory involves
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process of acquiring information and storing it over time so that it can be retrieved when needed.
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info aquisition and purchasing time
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Info acquisition time often differs from purchasing time
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info storage influenced by what
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Information storage is influenced by existing info in memory
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Short-Term Memory
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Where we encode and interpret information
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short term memory storage
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Holds limited amounts of information until it is: Used in response Stored more permanently Lost
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long term memory
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Holds information more permanently after it has been transferred from STM.
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long term memory storage
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unlimited capacity
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Knowledge is often organized how
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categories-Objects that share similar concrete or abstract attributes are clustered together, usually in a hierarchical form. (e.g., Gatorade is a beverage, but not a juice).
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categorization.
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The process of organizing these similar objects is called categorization.
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categorization for marketers (5)
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-helps positioning -defines competition -influences product evaluation -influences memory -influences expectations about product location in supermarkets
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helps positioning
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Is Propel "water", "energy drink", "soft drink", "juice"?
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defines competition
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, Does Propel compete against Perrier?
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influences product evaluation
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Propel is Gatorade - Positive Attitude
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Categorization influences memory
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, When I think about water, do I think about Propel
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Categorization influences expectations about product location in supermarkets
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Is Propel among the energy drinks or among the bottles of water?
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nodes
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folders
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schemas
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made up of folders
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how do we categorize
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concrete attributes
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schemas madeup of what
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consideration sets
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Recall versus recognition
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Recognition scores tend to be more reliable than recall scores --> in reality more retrieval cues are available to consumers
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Why important to measure memory of ads?
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-Companies spend millions of dollars on advertising -7 percent of television viewers can recall the product or company featured in the most recent TV commercials they watched
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chunking
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A group of items that can be processed as a unit Limit is 5+/-2 items
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rehearsal
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Actively and consciously interacting with the material (jingle/ slogans)
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Recirculation
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Remembering via repetition without active rehearsal (street names/ mall stores)
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Elaboration
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Processing at a deeper level - relate it to existing information and past experience
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