Your Textbook Describes a Study in Which Participants Preferred Tea

question 11

Multiple Choice

Your textbook describes a study in which participants preferred tea whose name contained the first 3 letters of their own name 64% of time, and tea whose name contained the first three letters of their experimental partner's name 36% of the time. If unconscious preferences had no effect on behavior then participants should have chosen the tea whose name included the first three letters of their name what percent of the time ?

• A)75
• B)33
• C)25
• D)50

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