A sales representative comes to your home and asks you to try a water filter system for a week, absolutely free, so you agree. He returns the next week and tells you that it will cost a substantial amount of money to permanently install the system

He is using

a. cognitive dissonance
b. the low-ball technique
c. the foot-in-the-door phenomenon
d. impression management


Answer: B

Psychology

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