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.