Zelda says that she likes dogs and that she is not afraid of them. But she gets visibly tense whenever a dog approaches, and refuses to visit any of her dog-owning friends at their homes. It appears that even though she says she likes dogs, Zelda has a negative ____ attitude toward them.
A) deliberate
B) automatic
C) conditioned
D) unconditioned

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Zelda's behavior indicates that she has an automatic, or unconscious, negative association with dogs despite her conscious statement that she likes them.

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