The levels of processing effect describes how well a stimulus is remembered as a function of how deeply it was mentally processed when it was first encountered, with deeper processing producing a stronger and more elaborate memory than shallow processing. The model, created by Fergus Craik and Robert Lockhart in 1972, describes three levels: structural or visual processing, which registers only the physical appearance of a word, phonemic processing, which registers how the word sounds, and semantic processing, in which a person encodes the word's meaning, the deepest of the three levels.
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Core ClaimSourced to the subject's own accountThe levels-of-processing effect describes how well a stimulus is remembered as a function of how deeply it is mentally processed when first encountered, with deeper semantic processing producing stronger, more durable memories than shallow structural or phonemic processing, under the model proposed by Fergus Craik and Robert Lockhart. 1 First Described YearSourced to the subject's own account Classification
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The levels of processing model, created by Fergus I. M. Craik and Robert S. Lockhart in 1972, describes memory recall of stimuli as a function of the depth of mental processing, where deeper levels of processing produce more elaborate and stronger memory than more shallow levels of processing.
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The levels of processing model, created by Fergus I. M. Craik and Robert S. Lockhart in 1972, describes memory recall of stimuli as a function of the depth of mental processing, where deeper levels of processing produce more elaborate and stronger memory than more shallow levels of processing.
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