Before Pepsi-Cola stamped freshness dates on its cans, few consumers considered cola freshness an issue. After Pepsi spent about $25 million on advertising and promotion, a consumer survey found that 61 percent of cola drinkers thought it important. This is an example of using which attitude change strategy? a. changing beliefs about the extent to which a brand has certain attributes

b. encouraging the consumer to use stimulus generalization

c. adding new attributes to the product

d. encouraging the consumer to use stimulus discrimination

Below are the complete options:

changing beliefs about the extent to which a brand has certain attributes

encouraging the consumer to use stimulus generalization

adding new attributes to the product

encouraging the consumer to use stimulus discrimination

changing the importance of attributes

changing the importance of attributes

Explanation:

Freshness dates shows for how long a drink can be considered to not have expired. For example Pepsi can be considered to give freshness from 6-9 months after the date printed on the bottle.

Pepsi spent about $25 million on advertising and promotion related to freshness dates. Initially freshness dates were only seen as important by a few people.

This resulted in 61 percent of cola drinkers now thinking it is important.

This exemplifies how importance of a product's attribute can be changed

answer; (a) searching for information can be done quickly;

the correct answer is b.)