Craik and Tulving conducted an experiment in which they asked people questions about single words.Later, the participants were asked to recall the words they had answered the questions about.Craik and Tulving found the participants remembered more when they had:
A)made judgments about the sounds of the words
B)thought about the meaning of the words
C)simply counted the number of letters in each word
D)slept for 8 hours between encoding and retrieval

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Craik and Tulving's experiment found that participants remembered more when they thought about the meaning of the words. This suggests that deeper processing of information leads to better retention and retrieval. Judgments about sound or simply counting letters were more shallow forms of processing that did not result in better recall. Past research has also shown that sleep can enhance memory consolidation, but this was not specifically tested in this experiment, so choice D is not the best answer.

Craik and Tulving Conducted an Experiment in Which They Asked