Levels Of Processing And Word
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The relationship between processing words at deeper levels and memory was examined. Participants were 38 experimental psychology students grouped depending on whether the student had completed cognitive psychology by the time of the experiment. Group A was instructed to decide if a word fit a R ....
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.... that dealt with ways to improve memory without the use of drugs.
In a study conducted by Craik and Tulving (1975), the effects of deeper levels of processing on retention of words was tested. They found that the deeper level the word was processed on, the more likely the word was to be retained. A simple structural task (“Is there a word present?”) requires very little processing and therefore a lesser chance for retention. Tasks that required participants to complete a sente ....
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