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Studies In The Cognitive Approach Levels Of Processing (Craik and Lockhart 1972) When given a list of words to learn, we can do one of three things to allow us to recall them on a later occasion. We can simply try to learn the words usual a visual method of just looking at the words. We can also think of words that rhyme with the word that has to be learnt, this is the auditory method. Finally we can associate the words with other words e.g. car and drive, this is a semantic way to remember things. Craik and Lockhart carried out the following study to investigate which form of memory gives the best recall. Three groups of people were given a list of words to learn. Group one was told to remember the list simply by just looking at it. The second group was told to remember the list by trying to rhyme...

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