It Is an Election Year, and a Volunteer Asks If

question 31

Multiple Choice

It is an election year, and a volunteer asks if Mrs.Timmins would put a small, one-foot sign in her yard. She agrees. The next week, her husband cannot believe that she agreed to let the volunteer put a new, three-foot-wide sign on the front lawn. This example illustrates:

• A)the bystander effect.
• B)diffusion of responsibility.
• C)the door-in-the-face technique.
• D)the foot-in-the-door technique.

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Definitions:

Special Instructions

Specific directions or orders given in particular situations to guide actions or procedures.

Memory Processes

The mechanisms by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved in the brain, facilitating learning and remembering.

Control Group

In experimental research, a group of subjects that is not exposed to the treatment being tested, serving as a benchmark to measure the effects of that treatment.

Dependent Variable

The variable in an experiment that is measured or tested by the researcher to see if it is affected by changes in another variable (the independent variable).