Analysing the Generation Effect

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Noteworthy findings indicated that the participants recognized more items from the generate condition than read condition. A notable large effect between the two conditions was detected as well.
Slamecka and Graf (1978) strongly suggested that generation effect existed, despite of other argumentative claims. Under the same category, items involve providing a stimulus and response in the generate condition confirms improve memory in the later recognition test versus items in the read condition.
Perhaps how the items encode and retrieve from the memory can be interpreted as well. An alternative explanation argued that levels of processing took place during the generate condition where the second items were led to deeper and elaborative learning, therefore contributed to superior memory, comparing to the items that had limited semantic learning in the read condition (Slamecka & Graf, 1978). Items in the generate condition are force to produce a deeper semantic processing and therefore produce a better memory. In contrast, items in the read condition encourage and expose to shallow p...

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