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Literature Survey 37<br />

Fig. 8 Factors influencing the amount of attention given to an ad<br />

Source: Mackenzie, 1986, p. 177<br />

The interpretation process of these stimuli is influenced by the motives of the consumer<br />

and selective (Hastorf and Cantril, 1954) in the sense that it aims to<br />

strengthen the worldview and self-view of the consumer before being stored in<br />

memory. The social, business, political and economic environment are the basis for<br />

the stimuli in advertisements or interpersonal observations (Foxall, Brown and<br />

Goldsmith, 1998). These stimuli are made up from small, single units of information<br />

such as words, letters, etc. or large, strings thereof (Newell and Simon, 1972).<br />

The consumer goes through stages of preattention, focal attention, comprehension<br />

and elaboration when subjected to advertising stimuli (Greenwald and<br />

Leavitt, 1984) as shown in figure 9.<br />

Fig. 9 Four levels of involvement<br />

Source: Greenwald and Leavitt, 1984, p. 585 (own adaptation)<br />

Preattention uses the lowest amount of attentional capacity and advertising is expected<br />

not to have enduring effects. Focal attention allocates a moderate level of attentional<br />

capacity to decipher the sensory content of the message into categories

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