Which question insisted on deepest processing involving semantic(meaning) analysis?
According to Craik & Lockhart the latter should be best remembered. The first question is shallow. The second question is deeper. The third question is deepest. Craik & Lockhart suggested that semantic processing can operate at different depths of analysis, some being more complex than others which they referred to as Elaborate Semantic Processing. Craik and Lockhart used the laboratory experiment which can be criticised in terms of validityand representativeness. The variables identified may be difficult to operationalise as ‘depth of processing’ may be seen as a highly individual – deep for one person may be shallow to another. This makes generalisations difficult. Bransford (’79) suggested that processing in LTM is even more complex than that proposed by Craik & Lockhart.
