Este artículo presenta diez experimentos diseñados para explorar el enfoque de la memoria humana en términos de niveles de procesamiento de la información propuesto por Craik y Lockhart (1972), en los que se inducía a los sujetos a que procesaran palabras a varias profundidades: a nivel superficial, intermedio y profundo. En la discusión general, los autores exponen varias razones por las que las concepciones originales de Craik y Lockhart parecen insatisfactorias, impulsando la idea de que la elaboración o “amplitud” de la codificación proporciona una mejor descripción de los resultados, además de señalar que la retención depende críticamente de los aspectos cualitativos de las operaciones de codificación ejecutadas. Por último, los autores afirman que parece necesario utilizar el “principio de congruencia” de Schulman (1974) para describir de una forma completa los efectos obtenidos y finalizan discutiendo las implicaciones generales de estos y otros experimentos.
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