... of processing required and the likelihood of recall. On average 36.1% of words remembered required visual processing, 30.5% required acoustic processing and 34.9% required semantic processing. Hence, the experimental hypothesis was rejected and the null hypothesis accepted. As the null hypothesis was accepted, the conclusion drawn was that the level of processing of information has no effect on its likelihood of recall. Introduction The origin of this study was the subject of Memory. STM and LTM In 1890 the American philosopher and psychologist, William James, suggested memory is split into two stores - short term (STM) and long term (LTM). The short-term memory can be defined as holding information for a few seconds, basically until it has been used. George Miller (1956, as cited in Askam et al, 2000) described its capacity as 'the magical number seven, plus or minus two'. This means that experiments have shown that, on average, people remember between five and nine ...

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