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Which survey type is usually biased because those likely to respond have had especially positive or negative experiences with a given product, service, or brand?


A) personal interviews
B) focus groups
C) telephone
D) mail

E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

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Shelly, the manager of a large grocery store, was concerned. She had received complaints from several customers who said they had been treated rudely by clerks at the store. In order to determine whether or not her clerks were indeed rude, Shelly hired a team of marketing researchers. The researchers posed as customers shopping in the store, but were actually taking notes and recording the actions of the store clerks. Later, Shelly reviewed those notes. The research notes Shelly reviewed were a form of ________ data.


A) secondary
B) primary
C) developmental
D) national

E) None of the above
F) C) and D)

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Give one example each of (1)a leading question, (2)two questions in one, (3)an ambiguous question, and (4)a non-mutually exclusive answer.

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Each of the following is an example of external secondary data EXCEPT?


A) an organization's financial statements
B) specialized online computerized databases such as Nexus or CompuServe
C) government statistics from the Department of Commerce
D) a survey by the Economic Research Service of the Canadian. Department of Agriculture

E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

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What is a panel? How is it used in marketing research? What disadvantage is associated with its use?

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What kind of questions are the following? "Place an X in the space that describes your feelings about this test." Easy ____ __ __ __ __ Difficult Fair__ __ __ __ Unfair


A) semantic differential scale question
B) Likert scale question
C) dichotomous question
D) open-ended question

E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

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Using data provided by the Canadian census to understand the demographics of a particular market is known as


A) census data.
B) secondary data.
C) demographic data.
D) primary data.

E) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

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Statistics Canada completes the census of Canada once every decade, which gives detailed information on Canadian households. This service provides:


A) external secondary data.
B) primary data.
C) non-probability sampling tools.
D) internal secondary data.

E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

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Neuromarketing is a new market research tool that measures the brain activity when exposed to different marketing stimuli. Which of the following statements regarding neuromarketing is FALSE?


A) very costly.
B) determines how a customer actually feels towards a product.
C) need to use a small sample size.
D) can put thoughts into people's minds.

E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

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Figure 8-6 Figure 8-6    -Referring to Figure 8-6, what is represented by the block identified as 'C'? A) external data sources B) buying queries C) data warehouse D) internal data sources -Referring to Figure 8-6, what is represented by the block identified as 'C'?


A) external data sources
B) buying queries
C) data warehouse
D) internal data sources

E) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

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What is the basic difference between primary and secondary data, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

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The Toronto Blue Jays professional baseball team wanted to develop creative ways to boost sagging attendance at their ball games. The Jays hired a moderator who, after every home game during the month of July, led informal discussions with groups of six to ten fans to find out what they did and did not like about the baseball team. The discussions were tape recorded and videotaped so that researchers could review the data at a later date and in more detail. What are such informal research discussions Called?


A) focus groups
B) secondary data
C) research variables
D) experiments

E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

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You are the product manager for a new children's cold breakfast cereal. Its proposed brand name is Barney, named after the popular, purple dinosaur of the PBS children's television show Barney & Friends. Barney cereal is positioned as a health-oriented, fun and socially positive cereal that consists of natural whole grains and fruit-sweetened, Barney-like purple dinosaurs that provide children with more than the 100 percent recommended daily allowance of vitamins A, B, and C. To ascertain the cereal's appeal among prospective buyers, each of the following would be a primary Data collection method to help you make marketing decisions regarding the new Barney brand cereal EXCEPT:


A) You send 10,000 trial boxes of Barney cereal to randomly selected households with children in Hamilton, ON (a national test market for consumer products) along with a business reply, postage-paid postcard to obtain the reactions of these households to the cereal.
B) You, personally, via a one-way mirror, watch the reactions of ten different groups of six to ten children eating bowls of the new Barney cereal with its purple dinosaurs.
C) You contract with major supermarket chains in Calgary, AB (a major consumer products test market) to stock 10,000 standard-size boxes of Barney cereal on their shelves. You also contract with InfoScan, a consumer product sales tracking service to determine the effect of a test marketing campaign consisting of ads on Saturday morning children's programs aired locally in Calgary, coupons in the
Local Calgary newspapers, and a direct mailing to all households with children in the Calgary market.
D) You refer to a recent consumer report that looks at features and attributes of children's cereals that have scored favourably in previous market testing.

E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

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When conducting marketing experiments, the dependent variable can often describe any of the following EXCEPT:


A) marketing mix variables.
B) preferences in taste tests.
C) attitudes highly correlated to actual purchase behaviour.
D) actual purchase behaviour.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Your university wants to understand how graduates are doing two years after completing their degree. They place 2000 graduates' names in a hat and randomly begin selecting names to call. This type of selection is known as:


A) probability sampling.
B) statistical inference.
C) nonprobability sampling.
D) extrapolation.

E) B) and C)
F) All of the above

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Someone making the statement, "Before we begin this project, we'll have to hire someone to interview people to find out how many people in a 50-mile radius could use our service, what their average income is, and what their occupations are." is preparing to:


A) collect internal secondary data.
B) collect primary data.
C) collect external secondary data.
D) perform a sensitivity analysis.

E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

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Information provided by one firm on household demographics and lifestyle, purchases, TV viewing behaviour, and responses to promotions is called:


A) multi-source data.
B) marketing research data.
C) online data.
D) single source data.

E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

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The primary reasons for using nonprobability samples when conducting a survey include all of the following EXCEPT:


A) the conclusions require a sample that is representative of the entire population.
B) a limited time to collect data.
C) the difficulty in recruiting a probability sample.
D) a limited budget to collect data.

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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Canada's military ran informal sessions in cities across Canada to find out what images should appear in the Army's next recruitment campaign. These groups of eight or nine individuals aged 18-24 responded to questions posed by a group leader regarding their opinions on reality in military ads. This is an example of a:


A) Likert scale interview.
B) consumer panel.
C) focus group.
D) jury of executive opinion.

E) None of the above
F) B) and D)

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All of the below are considered basic techniques of exploratory research except:


A) focus groups
B) primary research
C) secondary data analysis
D) depth interviews

E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

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