Abstract: By using Glucksberg & McCloskey's (1981)Question-Answering Model,two questions, namely, the temporal order coded upon acquisition, or constructed during retrieval, and the temporal order information processing deliberate or automatic, were tested within two experiments. The result shows that it is temporal order coding during item processing that derives the acquisition of temporal order knowledge, and not constructed during item retrieval. Based on Hasher & Zacks'(1979) automatic processing criteria, the processing of temporal order informtion is deliberate, not automatic.

Key words: Temporal Order Coding, Automatic Processing, Deliberate Processing