Those who believe in the value of subliminal audio programs would be wrong to claim that

A) people are capable of bottom-up processing.
B) signal detection is influenced by a person's motivational state.
C) unconsciously processed information is unusually persuasive.
D) sensory transduction can occur without conscious awareness.

Subliminal Audio

Audio stimuli played below the conscious threshold of hearing, designed to influence behavior or emotions without the listener's conscious awareness.

Sensory Transduction

The conversion of a sensory signal from the environment into an electrical signal in the nervous system.

Bottom-Up Processing

A type of information processing that begins with sensory input and builds up to the formation of a perception in the brain.