Levels of Processing and Recall
Levels of processing and recall (memory).
Abstract:
It has been suggested that the number of words recalled would increase if the levels of processing were deeper. ) According to levels of processing theory only elaborative rehearsal helps improve long term memory (Eysenck 1977). The study carried out investigates whether deeper levels of processing would aid the memory recall as it has been hypothesised; however the results obtained from this study clearly illustrate a positive correlation. There is a study to support this study which was carried out by psychologists Craik and Lackhart (1972) the design used in this study was a repeated measure design, the study consisted of 139 participants, 39 of them being male and the remaining being 100 female. The resulted produced from this study indicate that memory recall can be increased when deeper levels of processing are used.
Introduction:
For a matter of years cognitive psychologists have been intrigued as to how people perceive, think learn and remember things. Their focus was prioritised by how people get hold of information, process it and store it. An area they majorly focused on is memory, which can be defined as being the process in which information/ data is programmed (encoded), stored and recovered. It is ‘a recall of an event that has occurred in the past’ (Olson & Strauss, 1984, p.32). Programming (encoding) allows the information collected from the outside world to to come in contact with our senses in the forms of physical and chemical stimuli. It was suggested in 1980 by James Williams that memory was a system that supported primary to make a distinction from secondary memory which contains a permanent record of the past (Parkin, 1993).
Craik and Lockhart (1972) suggest that people engage in two different types of practice (rehearsal) which are maintenance practice and elaborative practice. Maintenance practice is a process of verbal information constantly repeated until
Abstract:
It has been suggested that the number of words recalled would increase if the levels of processing were deeper. ) According to levels of processing theory only elaborative rehearsal helps improve long term memory (Eysenck 1977). The study carried out investigates whether deeper levels of processing would aid the memory recall as it has been hypothesised; however the results obtained from this study clearly illustrate a positive correlation. There is a study to support this study which was carried out by psychologists Craik and Lackhart (1972) the design used in this study was a repeated measure design, the study consisted of 139 participants, 39 of them being male and the remaining being 100 female. The resulted produced from this study indicate that memory recall can be increased when deeper levels of processing are used.
Introduction:
For a matter of years cognitive psychologists have been intrigued as to how people perceive, think learn and remember things. Their focus was prioritised by how people get hold of information, process it and store it. An area they majorly focused on is memory, which can be defined as being the process in which information/ data is programmed (encoded), stored and recovered. It is ‘a recall of an event that has occurred in the past’ (Olson & Strauss, 1984, p.32). Programming (encoding) allows the information collected from the outside world to to come in contact with our senses in the forms of physical and chemical stimuli. It was suggested in 1980 by James Williams that memory was a system that supported primary to make a distinction from secondary memory which contains a permanent record of the past (Parkin, 1993).
Craik and Lockhart (1972) suggest that people engage in two different types of practice (rehearsal) which are maintenance practice and elaborative practice. Maintenance practice is a process of verbal information constantly repeated until