levels of processing
...ng. It is distinguished from Elaboration rehearsal, in which links are made to semantic associations. The model predicts that deep processing will lead to better retention, this is supported by the conclusion of the researchers that found out that because retention is better after certain orienting task, they must, by definition involve deep processing .In the Hyde and Jenkins study, for example, the orienting task that gave rise to the lowest level of recall was the sentence frame task. Hyde and Jerkins assume that the poor recall reflected shallow processing and yet, on the face of it, judgement about sentence frames would appear to require semantic analysis and thus, deep processing. Craik & Lockhart (1972) also suggested that other factors such as elaboration and distinctive are also important in determining the rate of retention and this idea has been supported by researcher. For example, Hunt and Elliot (1980) found that people recalled words with distinctive sequence of tall and short letter sequence better than words with less distinctive arrangements of letters. Despite this research supports, Level of processing was descriptive rather than explanatory. A major problem is circularity, therefore, there is no independent definition of depth. Other researchers have questioned the idea that depth of processing alone is responsible for retention .For example, Tyler et al. (1979) gave participants two ...