The original intent of the managers at the Hawthorne plant was to see if they could make their factory workers more productive by changing light levels in the factory. To do this, they increased the lighting for one group of workers in a special test room and kept the lights the same in the control room. They found that
a. workers in the special test room came to outperform workers in the control room.
b. workers in the control room actually outperformed workers in the test room.
c. neither group of workers showed an increase in productivity.
d. both groups of workers showed an increase in productivity.
Question 2
Eric does not really know how to answer the essay question about cognitive dissonance on his social psychology exam. He decides to write as many facts as he knows about the topic of attitudes in his exam book, hoping that the professor will not read the exams too closely and will be impressed enough by the length of his essay to give him a good score. Eric is hoping to take advantage of
a. the sleeper effect.
b. the peripheral route to persuasion.
c. the central route to persuasion.
d. dissonance-related insufficient justification.
