Levels of Processing

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Psychology

Cognitive Psychology

IB Psychology (HL)

Cognitive approach to understanding behaviour

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Who proposed the theory?

Craick and Lockhart (1972)

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What did they believe?

They believed that rehearsal alone was not enough to process information into LTM, and that the type of information you are trying to store, or to the level of processing may affect if that information goes into LTM.

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What are the three levels of processing?

Structural, phonological, and semantic

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Structural

  • The most shallow level of processing

  • Refers to how things look

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Phonological

  • the medium level of processing

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Semantic

  • Deepest level of processing

  • Refers to making information more meaningful by relating it to previously stored information.