Craik and Lockhart (1972)

Craik and Lockhart (1972)

1. LEVELS OF PROCESSING

2. Aim

   • To see if the type of question asked about words will have an effect on the number of words recalled

3. Method

   • Participants given a list of words to which they had to respond yes or no to
     • Some q's required structural processing of the words, others required phonetic and the rest required semantic
       • Then they were given a shorter list of words and asked to identify the words they had answered questions about

4. Results

   • Participants identified 70% of the words that required semantic processing
     • 35% for phonetic processing
     • 15% for structural processing

5. Conclusion

   • The deeper information is stored, the more likely it is to be remembered

6. It does not explain why deeper levels of processing improve memory

   • Lacks ecological validity as we do not go around remembering lists of words everyday
     • We cannot apply it to real life situations
   • Evaluation