Levels Of Processing And Word

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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 sentence frame task (Does the word fit into the sentence…?) needed a deeper level of processing and resulted in greater retention.
With today’s interest in increasing memory and the findings by Craik and Tulving (1975), we believe that participants who complete the sentence framework task will recall words better then those who simply do a structural task.
Method
Participants
Participants were 38 experimental psychology students. They were grouped depending on whether the student had completed cognitive psychology before the time of the experiment. If the student had cognitive psychology he or she was placed into group A. Others were selected for group B.
Apparatus
The experiment was conducted ...

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