Leslie was getting ready to landscape the yard of her new house. After researching and then shopping for specific trees, she decided on a beautiful magnolia for the showpiece of her garden. One of the things Leslie liked the most was the unusual elegance of the tree and the fact she had never seen one before. After purchasing the tree she was
Dismayed to see that only three houses down the street, right in front of the bus stop she used every day, was a beautiful magnolia. The fact she had been exposed to this tree and not remembered it is an example of processing.

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Shallow processing occurs when information is encoded into memory without much effort or attention. In this case, Leslie was not paying much attention to the magnolia tree when she saw it in front of the bus stop, so she did not encode it into her memory very well. As a result, she did not remember it when she was shopping for trees for her own yard.

Leslie Was Getting Ready to Landscape the Yard of Her