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Student’s Name Professor Course Date Compliance Techniques This essay is about compliance techniques as used in the field of psychology. It will involve the evaluation of such techniques, their definitions, explain their effectiveness, and support thereof from scholars in the field of psychology. The term compliance refers to the change that occurs in an individual’s behavior due to a request or direction from another person. It occurs when a person alters their behavior to fit into a particular group even though still disagreeing with the group. Compliance does not in any way rely on positions of authority, unlike obedience. “Compliance is a change in the character requested by another individual; the person acts in a way because others asked him or her to do although he or she is in a position to decline” (Breckler, Olson, & Wiggins 6). Compliance takes many forms from a buddy asking for help sheepishly blanketed by the query “Can you please do me a favor?” Pop-up advertisements on the internet designed to convince one into checking out a commercial site and also the high convincing intonation of a sales person for a good business deal set by the luring words “Have I got a deal for you!” (Breckler, Olson, & Wiggins 6) The request here can be direct or may possess manipulation. The compliance techniques come in many forms, but I will only discuss two, namely: The “Door-in-the-Face” and the “Foot-in-the-Door” technique. Firstly, the foot in the door technique is built on the assumption that the agreement to a minute request would increase the chances of agreement to a bigger request shortly. It means that one makes a request that is small
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