Recall that Festinger and Carlsmith gave participants either $1 or $20 for telling others that an experiment was fun and interesting. The experiment entailed turning pegs on a pegboard one quarter turn at a time. Thus, in actuality, the experiment was tedious and boring. Study results showed that a. neither $1 nor $20 could induce participants to tell other people that the experiment was interesting. b. after telling people that the experiment was interesting, participants in the $1 condition tended to express a more favorable attitude toward the experiment. c. after telling people that the experiment was interesting, participants in the $20 condition tended to express a more favorable attitude toward the experiment. d. participants in the $1 condition were less likely to follow the experimenter’s instructions.

b. after telling people that the experiment was interesting, participants in the $1 condition tended to express a more favorable attitude toward the experiment.

Explanation:

In the experiment carried out by Festinger and Carlsmith, the participants are told it was a fun experiment. It will be found that participants that took $1 will have a more positive attitude to the experiment because they are not motivated by the money given but want to have fun while performing the experiment. They are motivated by intrinsic forces.

On the other hand those that got $20 are more interested in the money and will just perform the task to get the reward. They are motivated by extrinsic factors (money),