Craik and Lockharts levels of processing model

Levels of processing

Levels of processing

Structural

Phonetic

Semantic

Information is remembered more if…

Considered

Understood

Has meaning

Positives

explains that if we understand something we are more likely to remember it

explains the longer we consider and analyse information the more likely we are to remember it

Negatives

doesn’t take into account individual differences

difficulty in defining what deep processing involves