Hierarchical Note-Taking
Level 1 of hierarchical organization
What is the main question?
Name an ineffective strategy for reading texts
What is reading and highlighting?
Name a general tip for determining what to study
What is referring to the syllabus, reviewing past exams, focusing on lecture highlights, understanding question format, etc.
Study strategy where you write down/list as much as you can remember
What is recall?
Potential ways to organize your notes when studying
What is chronological order, increasing complexity order, timeline, etc?
Level 2 of hierarchical organization
What are the key points/supporting evidence?
The reading strategy we practiced with multiple steps
What is the SQ3R strategy?
Name a common but ineffective strategy
Visual representation technique we practiced to memorize the philosophers
What is the method of loci?
Ways to expand context variability
What is shuffle flashcards, bidirectional questions, different question formats, etc. ?
Easiest type of question to ask
What is a clarification question?
Name one challenging to reading texts
What are engagement issues, noticing errors, hierarchical format, etc
Name a less common but effective strategy
What is creating your own flashcards, outline, or concepts?
Information more easily remembered when organized by meaning
What is semantic contiguity effect?
If you encounter information that seems random or difficult to remember, then use this strategy.
What are mnemonics?
Level 3 of hierarchical organization (often the hardest)
What are conclusions?
Reading to --- is different than reading for pleasure
What is to learn?
It's not just about the time you spend but how deeply you engage with the material. What is the principle?
Memory phenomenon where items from the beginning of a list are more easily remembered
What is the primacy effect?
A social psychological phenomenon where individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present
What is the bystander effect?
What should you be trying to identify during lecture?
What are gaps in knowledge?
What should be included in your notes while you read?
What are vocab, summaries, headers/subheaders, mental engagement/connections, etc.
Organizing information helps you remember it better. What is this principal?
What is the temporal contiguity effect?
Memory phenomenon where items from the end of a list are more easily remembered
What is the recency effect?
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