Memory- Craik And Lochhart

Question 1

Craik and Lockhart 1972

Answer 1

Aim-to see if the type of question asked about words will have an effect on the number of words recalled

Method-participants were presented a lift of words one at a time and asked questions about each word to answer yes or no some questions required structural processing of the words,others required phonetic processing and the remainder required semantic processing. They were given a longer list of words and asked to identify the words they had answered questions about

Results- participants identified 70% of the words that required semantic processing 35% required phonetic and 15% structural

Conclusion- the more deeply information is processed the more likely it is to be remembered