This document discusses several frameworks for understanding how advertising works, including: 1. AIDA - Attention, Interest, Desire, Action and frameworks like DAGMAR which view the effects of advertising on consumers as progressing through cognitive, affective, and conative stages. 2. The Hierarchy-of-Effects Model which sees awareness, knowledge, liking, preference, and conviction as stages consumers move through when being exposed to advertising. 3. Factors like involvement, central and peripheral processing, and message motivation that influence how consumers respond to and are persuaded by advertising.