Levels of processing, transfer-appropriate processing, and the concept of robust encoding

1 September 2002

journal article
review article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Memory

Vol. 10 (5-6) , 397-403
https://doi.org/10.1080/09658210244000225

Abstract

The theoretical status of levels of processing and its relation to the general principle of transfer-appropriate processing is discussed. One possible description of this relationship is that levels of processing has its effect by influencing the likelihood that the processing will prove to be transfer-appropriate. This transfer account of the levels effect is discussed in terms of the concept of robust encoding (Lockhart & Craik, 1990). Available evidence provides little support for any simple form of this concept, but a modified version is suggested as a possibility.

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