EFFECTS OF LEVEL OF PROCESSING ON IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT TASKS

The series of experiments presented in this article replicate the inte raction that B. H. Challis and D. R. Brodbeck (1992) reported between list design (blocked or mixed) and level of processing for word fragme nt completion: The advantage for semantically processed words over sha llowly processed words was greater when the conditions were blocked th an when they were mixed on the study list. A similar interaction was f ound for perceptual identification (a data-driven implicit task) and p riming in general knowledge questions (a conceptually driven implicit task). However, both data-driven and conceptually driven explicit task s failed to reveal such a pattern.