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Evaluating the Levels of Processing Theory
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Evaluating the Levels of Processing Theory The levels of Processing theory was put forward in 1972 by Craik and Lockhart. This theory came about after they criticised the Multi-store model of memory saying it was too simplistic and descriptive rather that actually explaining the model. This theory was an alternative to the Multi-store model as it replaces the idea of Short term and Log term memory. Levels of processing theory believes that information can be processed at different levels at the same time. The deeper the information is processed, the more likely it will be remembered. There was a case of a man name KF and he had damage to the occipital parietal lobe so he had damaged a part of his brain which meant that he no longer had a short term memory as he could not process information in it, however, he was still able to store information in...
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