"Mommy, mommy, mommy," your young son asks frantically. "Can we please buy a new PlayStation®3 console with all of the games and the wireless controllers so that we don't have to sit near the television?"
"No," you reply, "we can't afford to buy all of that!" Seemingly unperturbed by your reject, your son comes back with "Then can we just buy one new game for our PlayStation®2?" "Okay, I guess so," you answer, not realizing that your son has taken a social psychology class and has just used the __________ technique to get what he wanted.
a) door-in-the-face
b) foot-in-the-door
c) that's-not-all
d) low-ball
a
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At five years old, Sammy is better able to understand his friends' feelings as compared to when he was three years old. Sammy is acquiring a
A) theory of mind. B) self-concept. C) sense of identity. Incorrect. Identity plays a part in the theory of mind, but it is not the best answer to this question. D) sense of self-reflection.
Sucking, cuddling, looking, smiling, and crying are all infant behaviors that
encourage __________ . Fill in the blanks with correct word