Question

When studying for your driver's license exam, why is it better to deep process the information in the study booklet rather than surface processing it? You'll have a better ability to remember information. Surface processing won't help you with recall. Surface processing is actually the better method. You can predict the types of questions your teacher will ask on the exam.

Answer 1

Deep processing is better because then you internalize the information.

Explanation:

Deep processing and Surface processing are both ways of retaining information and learning concepts.

Surface processing is focused on retaining details and statistics. It helps with knowledge of specific facts but not as much with concepts.

For a driving license test, apart from a few essentials most of the learning has to be intuitive and from the cognition of the person themselves, this only comes with a clarity of concepts which can be achieved with deep processing.