Levels of ProcessingWhat methods did we employ in this experiment?There were two parts to this experiment. In Phase I, you were given a wordand a judgment task. There were three types of judgments. The first type ofjudgment (letters) was to decide if the word had a particular pattern ofconsonants and vowels. The second type of judgment (rhyme) was to decideif two words rhymed. The third type of judgment (synonym) was to decide ifone word was a synonym of another. In Phase II, you saw a series of words,half of which had been shown in Phase I. For each word, you were asked toindicate if it had been shown in Phase I.The independent variable in this experiment was the level of processinginduced by the judgment task: shallow (the letters task), medium (the rhymetask), and deep (the semantic task). The dependent variable was theproportion of times the word was correctly recognized as being in Phase I.What do we predict participants will do? Why?People should correctly recognize more words with the deep processing taskand fewer words with the shallow processing task. The reason is that on astandard word recognition task, most people use semantic information as acue to retrieval, and the type of processing most appropriate for asemantically-driven task is also semantic processing at test.How robust is this effect? Are there limits to this effect?The effect is quite robust and is not limited to recognition tests. However, theeffect can be altered if the test is changed. For example, if the test asked youwhether there was a word on the list that rhymed with a particular test item,you would do better for those items you made a rhyme judgment on in PhaseI than the items that you processed deeply.