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As marketing vice president of Health Care Services, Inc., you must test the hypothesis that increasing the number of salespeople assigned to a territory will increase sales of health care services in the territory. Which experiment will do this best?


A) Create an incentive program for your salesforce based upon individual performance. Use increases in customer satisfaction as your dependent variable and increases in sales performance as your independent variable.
B) Select three degrees of service health care (poor, good, average) as your independent variable and measure customer responses for each grade using the same number of sales representatives in each territory as your dependent variable.
C) Create an incentive program for your salesforce based upon individual performance. Use increases in customer satisfaction as your independent variable and increases in sales performance as your dependent variable.
D) Use a different number of salespeople in three different sales territories as your independent variable and changes in sales of health care services as the dependent variable.
E) Create an incentive program for your salesforce based upon team performance. Use increases in customer satisfaction as your independent variable and increases in sales performance for the team as your dependent variable.

F) B) and D)
G) C) and D)

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In marketing research, ________ involves generalizing the results from the sample to much larger groups of distributors, customers, or prospects to help decide on marketing actions.


A) nonprobability sampling
B) probability sampling
C) extrapolation
D) statistical inference
E) criteria sampling

F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

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A direct forecast involves estimating the value to be forecast and


A) making decisions without any intervening steps.
B) halving the highest values and doubling the lowest values to determine an acceptable forecast range.
C) selecting the alternative that holds the greatest consensus within the management team.
D) then conducting a sensitivity analysis to determine price elasticity.
E) selecting the forecasting alternative that would allow a firm to survive financially even if the forecasts are incorrect.

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

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All of these are sources of primary data except which?


A) government publications
B) observational data
C) experiments
D) social media
E) panels

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

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The first step of the marketing research approach is to


A) develop findings.
B) define the problem.
C) take marketing actions.
D) collect relevant information.
E) develop the research plan.

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

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A cross tabulation refers to


A) the selection of a group of people, asking them questions, and treating their answers as typical of all those in whom they represent.
B) a method of presenting and analyzing data involving two or more variables to discover relationships in the data.
C) the extraction of hidden predictive information from large databases to find statistical links between consumer purchasing patterns and marketing actions.
D) "what if" questions that determine how hypothetical changes in marketing mix drivers influence the buying decisions of a household.
E) the operation of computer networks that can store and process data.

F) A) and E)
G) B) and D)

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Several market research companies pay households and businesses to record all their purchases using a paper or electronic diary, which allows for an economical way to collect consistent data over time. These data are referred to as


A) sponsored data.
B) data reciprocity.
C) method sampling.
D) syndicated panel data.
E) data journaling.

F) All of the above
G) A) and D)

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Marketing information consists of secondary and primary data. Define each of these types of marketing information. Give examples for secondary and primary data.

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The primary purpose of a "sneak preview" of a film before its release is to


A) rate the performances of the individual actors and actresses for possible Oscar nominations.
B) rate the work of the director and producer for possible Oscar nominations.
C) evaluate the effectiveness of product placements within the film.
D) compare the final film to the original screenplay.
E) identify necessary changes before final editing.

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

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The process of selecting elements from a population, collecting data from them, and using it as representative of all those a researcher is interested in is referred to as


A) hypothesis generation.
B) sampling.
C) information gathering.
D) statistical inference.
E) probability extrapolation.

F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

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A picture or verbal description of a product or service a firm might offer for sale is referred to as


A) a constraint.
B) an exemplar.
C) a new-product concept.
D) a test offering.
E) a protocol.

F) A) and D)
G) C) and D)

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Considering the two main types of data, if facts and figures are newly collected for a project, which type of data is being collected?


A) immediate data
B) internal data
C) external data
D) primary data
E) secondary data

F) A) and B)
G) B) and D)

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Considering the five-step marketing research approach leading to marketing actions, the feedback loop


A) is useful only to help a researcher better define the problem next time.
B) is used to develop the research plan.
C) is a form of primary research.
D) is used to develop findings.
E) consists of lessons learned that can improve each of the steps.

F) A) and D)
G) C) and D)

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"Do you eat at fast-food restaurants regularly? Yes or No" is worded poorly because the word "regularly" makes it ________ question.


A) a judgmental
B) an ambiguous
C) two questions in one
D) a leading
E) a nonmutually exclusive

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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The U.S. Census Bureau publishes the ________, which is conducted every five years and contains detailed information on the number and sales of U.S. establishments that produce goods or services.


A) Annual Retail Trade Survey
B) Annual Survey of Manufacturers
C) Economic Census
D) Annual Wholesale Trade Survey
E) North American Industry Classification Survey

F) C) and E)
G) D) and E)

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Watch was a teen publication given out free to high school students, but the publication was unable to deliver the response rates to coupons or sample offers that its advertisers expected. Marketing researchers for its publisher developed a research plan, gathered information from teen focus groups, analyzed the findings, and recommended replacing Watch magazine with Fuel for boys and Verve for girls. Producing gender-specific magazines would be considered which step in the marketing research approach?


A) Define the problem.
B) Develop the research plan.
C) Collect relevant information.
D) Take marketing actions.
E) Develop findings.

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

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  Figure 8-4 -Consider Figure 8-4,  which was part of a Wendy's survey that assessed fast-food restaurant preferences among present and prospective consumers. Question 3 illustrates which type of question format? A)  dichotomous B)  open-ended C)  closed-end D)  attitudinal E)  semantic differential Figure 8-4 -Consider Figure 8-4, which was part of a Wendy's survey that assessed fast-food restaurant preferences among present and prospective consumers. Question 3 illustrates which type of question format?


A) dichotomous
B) open-ended
C) closed-end
D) attitudinal
E) semantic differential

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

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A fixed-alternative question requires respondents to select one or more response options from the set of predetermined choices. Another name for this kind of question is


A) a dichotomous question.
B) an open-ended question.
C) an attitudinal question.
D) a closed-end question.
E) a semantic differential question.

F) A) and C)
G) A) and B)

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A potential difficulty with experiments such as test markets is that outside factors, such as the actions of competitors, can distort the results by affecting ________, such as sales.


A) independent variables
B) marketing drivers
C) dependent variables
D) causality variables
E) probability variables

F) C) and D)
G) A) and C)

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What type of marketing uses brain scanning to analyze the buying processes of research participants?


A) subliminal marketing
B) permission marketing
C) psychographic marketing
D) optimization marketing
E) neuromarketing

F) A) and D)
G) A) and E)

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