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Craik and Lockhart (1972) and labeled the levels of
processing model. Specifically, the levels of
processing theory holds that memory is not threestaged which separates it immediately from the stage
theory model. Craik and Lockhart argue that stimulus
information is processed at multiple levels
simultaneously (not serially) depending on
characteristics, attention and meaningfulness. New
information does not have to enter in any specific
order, a