Sporer (1991) showed that people were better at recognizing faces if they had first processed them in terms of whether or not the face looked “honest” or not than if they had processed them in terms of whether or not the person had a wide nose. This is consistent with:
a. encoding specificity.
b. levels of processing.
c. retrieval inhibition.
d. cross-race representation.
Ans: b
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