Motivation - Researching connsumer motives

Question

What is motivation research?

Answer 1

Research directed at discovering the motives for a person's behavior - reasons of which the consumer is either unaware or is unwilling to admit to in direct questioning.

Answer 2

Techniques that are disguised and non-structured:
- Disguised: consumers are not able to figure out that you are trying to find out their deep motives.
- Non-structured: answers are not prestructured; rather, consumers is encouraged to say whatever comes to mind.

Answer 3

The respondent is given vague and open-ended stimulus and is then asked to interpret that stimulus. Since the stimulus is vague, interpreting it requires that the consumer 'project' himself or herself into the stimulus situation.

Answer 4

Projection techniques, from self-projections of consumers, the researcher is able to infer each consumer's motives for a particular marketplace behavior.

Answer 5

- Third-person question phrasing, consumers project their own motives onto other consumers and reveal their own motives.
- Word association: quickly say the word that comes to mind when we say the following word(s).
- Sentence completion: consumer is presented with an incomplete sentence and asked to fill in the blank.

- Story completion: most common form is Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), which consists of a series of ambiguous pictures shown to the consumer. Consumer is asked to describe the story of which the picture is a part. Another variation involves asking consumers to fill in a blurb in a cartoon.