This document summarizes key aspects of consumer behavior, including social influences, marketing influences, psychological influences, situational influences, and the consumer decision-making process. It outlines factors like culture, social class, reference groups, product characteristics, price, promotion, place, and time that influence consumer behavior. It also describes the consumer decision journey from need recognition through alternative search, evaluation, purchase, and post-purchase evaluation. Maslow's hierarchy of needs and cognitive dissonance theory are discussed.