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How effective is the levels of processing model as an explanation of memory?
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Psychology Essay. How effective is the levels of processing model as an explanation of memory? Craik and Lockhart believe that the memory is one single unit and cannot be broken down into short-term memory and long-term memory. The idea is that our ability to remember depends on how deeply we process and encode information. We process information in three different depths, from shallow to very deep. The shallowest level of processing involves the structural pattern of a word or number (what the word or number looks like). As we recognise a continual pattern of what the word sounds like, we process it more deeply. It is only when we can give meaning to the word that we will be at the deepest level of processing. This kind of processing leaves the most lasting memory trace. Craik and Lockhart's research supports the level of processing model as they showed that words that were processed...
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