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.

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The results are consistent with the theory of levels of processing, which argues that information is better remembered when it is processed at deeper levels (e.g. semantic processing) than at shallower levels (e.g. visual processing). In this case, processing facial features related to honesty may involve semantic or conceptual processing, whereas processing facial features related to nose width may involve mainly visual processing.

Sporer (1991) Showed That People Were Better at Recognizing Faces