Fergus Ian Muirden Craik is a cognitive psychologist, born on 17 April 1935 in Edinburgh, Scotland, known for his research on levels of processing in memory. That work was done in collaboration with Robert Lockhart at the University of Toronto in 1972 and continued with another collaboration with Endel Tulving in 1975. Craik is considered a leader in the area of memory, attention and cognitive aging. He gained his bachelor of science in psychology at the University of Edinburgh in 1960 and received his PhD from the University of Liverpool in 1965.
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Fergus Ian Muirden Craik FRS (born 17 April 1935, Edinburgh, Scotland) is a cognitive psychologist known for his research on levels of processing in memory.
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Fergus Ian Muirden Craik FRS (born 17 April 1935, Edinburgh, Scotland) is a cognitive psychologist known for his research on levels of processing in memory.
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The levels of processing model, created by Fergus I. M. Craik and Robert S. Lockhart in 1972, describes memory recall of stimuli as a function of the depth of mental processing, where deeper levels of processing produce more elaborate and stronger memory than more shallow levels of processing.
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