Explain Lifestyle and Psychographic Segmentation and benefit segmentation in regard to consumer behaviour.

Ans: For several years demographics have governed how communication targets their campaigns. The problem is that although individuals in a specific demographic category share some common characteristic such as sex, age or income the psychographics of these groups--their values and motivations as well as beliefs--are not homogeneous. There are multiple motivations for behaviour as well as people in a specific demographic category have a wide range of attitudes. Even though demographics can turn up objective facts such as that your target customer owns a car they can't tell you why the person bought the car. Lifestyle and Psychographics can. They calculate the motivations behind a behaviour including why individuals in a specific generation or income bracket will accept or reject a message act on it or ignore it.