Social Psychology 9th Edition by David Myers

Exercise 19

In an experiment by Zajonc and his colleagues, participants were exposed to brief novel passages of music while they focused their attention on other tasks. Results indicated that mere exposure lead to liking
A) only when the exposed stimulus was task-related.
B) only when people were consciously attending to the exposed stimulus.
C) even when people were unaware of what they had been exposed to.
D) unless background stimuli created a distraction and interfered with the processing of the task.