I remembered more sematic words then I did phonemic and structural words because I used elaborative rehearsal. In relation to this week’s module I learned why I scored the way I did on the experiment. Therefore, clearly, time on task has nothing to do with the effects of depth of processing. The deeper processing again improved recall even though it took less time than the shallow processing procedure. For example, the subject had to determine the pattern of consonants and vowels in the word. However, as part of this series of studies, Craik and Tulving (1975) conducted another experiment where the shallow questions presented to subjects were more difficult to perform and more time consuming to perform than the "deeper" meaning task. One might argue that processing words semantically or for their meaning takes more time than processing words for physical or basic sound characteristics and that improved recall is merely due to increased time on task. In the original study that this one is patterned after (Craik & Tulving, 1975), it was found that deeper levels of processing leads to higher recall. Thinking about the meaning of a word is a much deeper level of processing than thinking about what it sounds like or looks like. However, in the semantic condition you were asked to think about the meaning of each word in order to decide if it would fit into a sentence.
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