During a drought, Lynne noticed that all of her neighbors had stopped watering their lawns even though there were no laws against it. Lynne was following a(n) ________ norm when she let her lawn turn brown, too

a. descriptive
b. proscriptive
c. objective
d. productive


Answer: A

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