Observations that participants could do two tasks at once, such as focusing on a digit-span task while comprehending a paragraph, challenged the conceptualization of
A) the phonological similarity effect.
B) short-term memory.
C) the persistence of vision.
D) the physiological approach to coding.

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The observation that participants can do two tasks at once, such as focusing on a digit-span task while comprehending a paragraph, challenges the traditional conceptualization of short-term memory. It was previously thought that short-term memory had limited capacity and could only hold a small amount of information at any given time, but the ability to multitask suggests a more complex mechanism at play.

Observations That Participants Could Do Two Tasks at Once, Such