In an experiment, researchers had participants unscramble words that were "rude" words (e. g., "hostile") or "polite" words (e. g., courteous). Soon after, participants were more or less likely to interrupt the experimenter (who was talking to an accomplice). This is a demonstration of __

A) the occurrence of priming without conscious awareness of the priming stimulus

Explanation:

Priming is n exposure to the word and the image. When a person carried a task due to the particular association with mental representation. When a person sees the particular word doctor then definitely know the word called nurse rather than a word that is not similar to this word.  

The semantic priming was the source of word-formation. This is the process that encounters a word at a time and later on the process the same word.  

Thus in the above context, this is the demonstration of the occurrence of the priming without consciousness of the stimulus.

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according to hess's theory, when the magma cooled, it would expand and push the tectonic plates apart. it would push the north and south america plates to the west and eurasia and africa ones to the east. the atlantic ocean would get wider but the coastlines of the masses would stay the same.

harry hammond hess was a geologist and a united states navy officer in the second world war. he is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the theory of plate tectonics. he is known for his theories on sea floor spreading, stating that the movement of the continents was the result of see floor spreading. the continents are attached to the plates and do not move separately. the plates themselves shift and change shape, carrying the continents along.