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Introduction In social psychology has established effective compliance techniques such as the foot-in-the-door phenomenon. This strategy states simply that, “ agreeing to a small request increases the likelihood of agreeing to a second, larger request”(McLeod, pp4, 2014). The original experiment on the foot-in-the-door phenomenon was done by Freedman and Fraser in 1966. In the original study, the prediction was that if a small request was asked first and the person agrees to the smaller request, the person is more likely to agree to a larger request after. This prediction was supported in their data which showed that, “Over 50% of the subjects in the Performance condition agreed to the larger request, while less than 25% of the One-Contact condition agreed to it. Thus it appears that obtaining compliance with a small request does tend to increase subsequent compliance” (Freedman and Fraser, 198, 1966).  This is important because this significant data supports that the foot-in...

This is a screenshot of the chart i made using google docs. I don't plan on conducting a survey, but here are some questions I would ask 1.) How old are you? 2.) What is your identified gender? 3.) On a scale of 1-5, how much do you think your actions are influenced by others? 4.) Have you ever personally experienced someone trying to use these techniques on you? 5.) Have you ever heard of these compliance strategies?

My research topic is exploring the effectiveness of persuasion techniques commonly found in social psychology such as "foot-in-the door" and"door-in-the-face" phenomenons. These are important because they are commonly taught compliance techniques and have been heavily studied in my field of psychology. I have a few research questions I can dive into with these compliance strategies. One is, do these strategies and which strategies work better than no strategy at all? Do certain strategies work better on specific genders? Finally, which strategy is most effective of the ones used in the experiment? I plan on conducting an experiment maybe even more than one experiment to test my hypothesis. My hypothesis is that the foot-in-the-door technique works better than chance, and better than the "door-in-the-face" phenomenon. The independent variable is the strategy used and the dependent variable is compliance. One group will be the control group with no strat...

The IMRAD format is a lot different than the normal research papers that students learn how to write in high school. The structure is a lot different. In the IMRAD format you must write an abstract first. Following you have to write,  I ntroduction, M ethods, R esults, and D iscussion sections. In the introduction you are answering the question, "why are you writing this report?" and in the methods section you explain what you did in your research. To continue, in results you explain what you found in your research, and in discussion you explain why your findings are importantThese sections are important to include, so that the reader can easily locate information needed about the research. The title is also more important in IMRAD, than in the basic english paper. The title needs to be informative and explaining what is being researched.