Baldwin and His Colleagues (1989) Found That Subliminal Priming Influences

question 119

Multiple Choice

Baldwin and his colleagues (1989) found that subliminal priming influences self-evaluations. They found that Catholic women who were invested in their faith rated themselves lower on various dimensions of their self-concept when exposed to a subliminal picture of a frowning Pope, relative to a frowning stranger or blank image. This study is an example of

• A) controlled processing.
• B) automatic processing.
• C) naturalistic processing.
• D) explicit processing.

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