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:.1. the bystander effect2. diffusion of responsibility3. the door-in-the-face technique4. the foot-in-the-door technique

4. the foot-in-the-door technique        

Explanation:

The term "foot-in-the-door technique" is also written as FITD, and is described as one of the "compliance tactic" that is being focused on making an individual get agreed for a bigger request by convincing him or her for a smaller request initially.

Example: As given in the question above, the volunteer agreed Mrs Timmins to put a small one-foot signboard in her yard and after that the next week the volunteer agreed her to put a three-foot-wide signboard on the front lawn.

In the question above, the given statement is an example of the foot-in-the-door technique.

to plan an idea out before

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