• DOI:10.1037/0096-3445.104.3.268
Corpus ID: 7896617

Depth of processing and the retention of words

@inproceedings{Craik1975DepthOP,
  title={Depth of processing and the retention of words},
  author={F. Craik and E. Tulving},
  year={1975}
}

F. Craik, E. Tulving

Published 1975

Psychology, Geology

SUMMARY Ten experiments were designed to explore the levels of processing framework for human memory research proposed by Craik and Lockhart (1972). The basic notions are that the episodic memory trace may be thought of as a rather automatic by-product of operations carried out by the cognitive system and that the durability of the trace is a positive function of "depth" of processing, where depth refers to greater degrees of semantic involvement. Subjects were induced to process words to… CONTINUE READING

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