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The relationship between processing words at deeper levels and memory was examined. Participants were 38 experimental psychology students grouped depending on whether the student had completed cognitive psychology by the time of the experiment. Group A was instru ....

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.... the use of drugs. In a study conducted by Craik and Tulving (1975), the effects of deeper levels of processing on retention of words was tested. They found that the deeper level the word was processed on, the more likely the word was to be retained. A simple structural task (“Is there a word present?”) requires very little processing and therefore a lesser chance for retention. Tasks that required participants to complete a sentence frame task (Does the word fit into the sentence…?) needed a deeper level of processing and resulted in greater retention. With today’s interest in increasing memory and the findings by Craik an ....