Peterson and Johnson (1971) also did a digit span task with…

Peterson and Johnson (1971) also did a digit span task with a simultaneously performed concurrent task. Peterson and Johnson asked participants to repeat simple words over and over (e.g., “the,” “the,” “the,” “the,” etc.) while they were also supposed to be rehearsing the digits for the digit span task. They found that:

Sporer (1991) showed that people were better at recognizing…

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: