In a Study by Bargh and Colleagues (1996),participants Were Exposed

question 61

Multiple Choice

In a study by Bargh and colleagues (1996) ,participants were exposed to stereotypes about the elderly through a scrambled sentence task.What was their main finding?

• A) Participants primed with the elderly stereotype walked more slowly down the hallway than those who were not primed.
• B) It took the experimenter longer to debrief participants primed with the elderly stereotype than those who were not primed.
• C) Participants primed with the elderly stereotype actually walked faster down the hallway than those who were not primed.
• D) There were no differences found between those participants primed with the elderly stereotype and those who were not primed.

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