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You believe that reading is the same as learning.
Semantic processing results in better recall than structural or phonemic processing, a finding supported by subsequent research that operationalized the theory.
The empirical experiments confirming this were published by Craik and Tulving in 1975, not in the original 1972 theoretical paper by Craik and Lockhart.
You are better off summarizing one page than reading ten without engagement.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Craik & Lockhart, 1972, Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
- What the check found
- The 1972 paper proposed the theory; it did not contain the experimental results described. The finding is widely accepted, but attributed to the wrong paper.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
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