Five Situational Influences Have an Impact on a Consumer's Purchase

question 149

Multiple Choice

Five situational influences have an impact on a consumer's purchase decision process: purchase task, social surroundings, physical surroundings, antecedent states, and __________.

• A)competition
• B)temporal effects
• C)perceived value
• D)independent variables
• E)economic effects

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