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The experiment performed was a partial replication of an experiment done by Hyde and Jenkins (1973). In the experiment participants were to perform an orienting task while listening to an audio tape that presented a list of 28 unrelated words at a rate of one word every three seconds. There were two independent variables (IV) with two conditions each. The experiment was to determine whether deep or shallow processing through task orientation had any effect on the amount of words recalled from the list. The experiment also attempted to determine whether incidental or intentional learning would make a significant difference in word recall. To test this theory we used Psychology students, split up into four conditions. The results were recorded in all four conditions. Our findings indicated deep encoding was more effective in memory retention than shallow encoding, incidental or intentional learning resulted in similar memory retention, and that there was no interaction......

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