Subjects in the Craik and Watkins experiment were required to maintain a word in STM in order to report the last word on a list that began with a specified letter. The results indicated that the amount of rehearsal

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The Craik and Watkins experiment found that the amount of rehearsal did not influence retrieval from long-term memory (LTM), suggesting that mere repetition or maintenance rehearsal was not enough for semantic processing or for transferring information into LTM. This implies that the depth of processing (i.e., the meaningful processing of information) is more important for memory than the amount of rehearsal.

Subjects in the Craik and Watkins Experiment Were Required to Maintain