Craik and Tulving (1975)

Craik and Tulving (1975)

Supporting study for the Level of Processing Model (Craik and Lockhart)

Aim - They wanted to see if the durability of a trace was affected by the depth of processing.

To see whether material that was more deeply processed would be recalled better.

Procedure:

• 24 participants
• repeated measures
• Lab experiment
• 60 words presented on a tachistoscope
• Asked one of three questions, that required a yes or no answer, about the word that required structural, phonetic or semantic processing e.g.
• Structural Q = "Is the word in capital letters or lower case?"
• Phonetic Q = "Does the word rhyme with......?"
• Semantic Q = "Does the word fit into this sentence.......?"
• Then given a list of 180 word in…