In Their Second Experiment, Where Subjects Were Asked to Install

question 1

Multiple Choice

In their second experiment, where subjects were asked to install a large sign on their front lawns, Freedman and Fraser found all of the following results except:

• A) there were no significant differences among the experimental conditions in the proportion of subjects who complied with the initial request.
• B) in the conditions where the first and second requests were similar in nature, there was significantly more compliance than in the conditions where the first and second requests were different in nature.
• C) merely having been given a first request tended to increase compliance with a second request, regardless of whether subjects agreed to perform the first request.
• D) having different interviewers for the first and second requests had no significant effect on the degree of compliance with the second request.

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